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Hysteria: The Biography Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Andrew Scull


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The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women--or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no longer exists. 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. Subsequently, the "disease" declined and eventually disappeared.

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  • Title Hysteria: The Biography
  • Author Andrew Scull
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, NY
  • Date 2009-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780199560967 / 019956096X
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.2 x 1 in (19.81 x 13.21 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Modern 1601-, Hysteria - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009026410
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.852

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About the author


Andrew Scull is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at UC San Diego.
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