Author: HUSTVEDT, ASTI
Title: Medical muses : hysteria in nineteenth-century Paris / Asti Hustvedt
Description: New York : W.W. Norton & Co. 2011. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 372 pages; Physical description; x. 372 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Contents; Charcot -- Blanche -- Augustine -- Genevieve. Summary; Depicts the lives of three French women who became unwitting celebrities after being committed to the hysteria ward of Salpetriere Hospital in 1870s Paris and delves into the treatment they received from noted French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. Subjects; Charcot. J. M. (Jean Martin) 1825-1893. Salpêtrière (Hospital). Neurologists - France - Biography. Hysteria - Treatment - France - History - 19th century. Psychiatry - France - History - 19th century. Hysteria - history - Paris.Weight in Kg appr.:

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