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1012823
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b767193
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| Main Entry
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Kushner, Howard I.
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| Title & Author
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A cursing brain? : : the histories of Tourette syndrome /\ Howard I. Kushner.
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| Edition Statement
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1st Harvard Univ. Press pbk. ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Mass. :: Harvard University Press,, 2000.
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1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0674003861
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: 0674039866
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: 9780674003866
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: 9780674039865
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0674180224
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9780674180222
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-290) and index.
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| Contents
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Contents -- Preface -- Note on Terms -- 1 An Elusive Syndrome -- 2 The Case of the Cursing Marquise -- 3 A Disputed Illness -- 4 The Case of O. and the Emergence of Psychoanalysis -- 5 Competing Claims -- 6 The Disappearance of Tic Illness -- 7 Margaret Mahler and the Tic Syndrome -- 8 Haloperidol and the Persistence of the Psychogenic Frame -- 9 The French Resistance -- 10 The Triumph of the Organic Narrative -- 11 Clashing Cultural Conceptions -- 12 Clinical Lessons -- Glossary -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
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A study of Tourette syndrome, "a set of behaviors, involuntary shouting (sometimes cursing) as well as obsessive-compulsive actions. ... Reveals how cultural and medical assumptions have determined and radically altered its characterization and treatment from the early nineteenth century to the present."--Jacket.
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Tourette syndrome-- History.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Diseases-- Alzheimer's Dementia.
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MEDICAL-- Neurology.
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SCIENCE-- General.
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Tourette syndrome.
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| Dewey Classification
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616.83
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| LC Classification
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RC375.K87 2000eb
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1999 E-642
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WM 11.1K97c 1999
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| Parallel Title
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Histories of Tourette syndrome
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