| Description |
xii, 327 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Conclusion: Remembering Hysteria |
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Introduction: The New Hysteria Studies -- A Short "History" of Hysteria -- Ch. 1. The Major Interpretive Traditions. Intellectual Histories of Hysteria. Psychoanalytic Hysteria. Feminist Histories of Hysteria. Charcot and the History of Hysteria. Nonfeminist Social and Political Histories -- Ch. 2. Theorizing Disease Historiography. The Need for Definitional Clarity. Beyond the "Historical Hysterics" From Theory to Practice. Beyond the Freudian Historical Teleology. Toward Sociosomatic Synthesis. The "Doctor-Patient Relationship" The De-dramatization of Hysteria. The Question of Social Class. Hysteria - The Male Malady. On the Rise and Fall of Nervous Diseases -- Ch. 3. Cultures of Hysteria: Past and Present Traditions. Hysteria's Metaphorical Past. The Literary, Dramatic, and Visual Arts. Politics, History, Society -- Ch. 4. Cultures of Hysteria: Future Orientations. Conceptualizing Cultural Influence. Hysteria, Gender, Culture. Hysteria and Religion Reconsidered |
| Analysis |
Foreign relations History |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-316) and index |
| Subject |
Hysteria -- Historiography.
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Hysteria -- History.
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Hysteria -- history.
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| LC no. |
94016596 |
| ISBN |
0691037175 (CL : alk. paper) |
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