Hysteria: The Biography

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Scull is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at UC San Diego. Klappentext In this fascinating account, Andrew Scull tells the story of hysteria--an illness that disappeared not through medical endeavor, but through growing understanding and cultural change. The lurid history of hysteria makes fascinating reading. Charcot's clinics showed off flamboyantly "hysterical" patients taking on sexualized poses, and among the visiting professionals was one Sigmund Freud. Scull discusses the origins of the idea of hysteria, the development of a neurological approach by John Sydenham and others, hysteria as a fashionable condition, and its growth from the 17th century.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Scull, Andrew T. Scull
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2009
• EAN: 9780199560967
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956096-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Biographies of Disease; Biographies of Disease
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology