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1 online resource (259 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Part One HYSTERIA COMPLICATED BY ECSTASY Sexuality, Time, and Commodities in the Malady of Nanette Leroux; Chapter 1 PRELIMINARIES; The Authors of the Case: An Inbuilt Polyphony; The Plot Summary; Chapter 2 CONTEXTS; Contexts: What They Do for the Reader, and How Many Are Enough; Savoy: Old Regime, Revolution, and Piedmontese Restoration; The Spa: A Characteristically Nineteenth-Century Setting; Commodities and Consumer Culture; Diagnostics: Catalepsy and Hysteria circa 1820; Medicine and Science as Public Spectacle |
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The Local Scientific Public SphereScientific Networks, or How Despine Found Bertrand; Religion in Savoy and in the Leroux Case; Defiant Women: Despine's Chagrins Domestiques; Chapter 3 MAKING SENSE OF THE CASE; The Authors' Understanding of the Case; A Twenty-First-Century Interpretation of the Case; Chapter 4 TEXTUAL MATTERS; Nanette Leroux or "Nanette Leroux": The Issue of Pseudonyms; Palimpsest and Polyphony: The State of the Manuscript; Choosing a Text for Translation; Part Two THE TEXT OF THE CASE HISTORY; OBSERVATIONS OF NANETTE LEROUX Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy |
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Appendix On the Compatibility of Foucauldian and Freudian ApproachesNotes; Index |
| Summary |
Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of incapacitating nervous symptoms. Living near the spa at Aix-les-Bains, she became the charity patient of its medical director, Antoine Despine, who treated her with hydrotherapy and animal magnetism, as hypnosis was then called. Jan Goldstein translates, and provides a substantial introduct |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2013) |
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Leroux, Nanette
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Leroux, Nanette -- Mental health
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Leroux, Nanette |
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Leroux, Nanette |
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Despine, Antoine. Hystérie compliquée d'extase. |
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Bertrand, Alexandre Jacques François. Hystérie compliquée d'extase. |
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Hysteria -- Case studies
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Hysteria -- complications
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Hysteria -- history
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History, 19th Century
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N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine -- adverse effects
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Psychiatry -- history
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- History.
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Hysteria
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Magd
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Krankengeschichte
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Hysterie
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France |
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Aix-les-Bains -- Region
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Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400833719 |
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140083371X |
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1299906877 |
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9781299906877 |
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