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" Hysteria : "
Andrew Scull
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BL
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| Record Number
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581365
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GBA966667b410584
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| Main Entry
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Scull, Andrew,1946-
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| Title & Author
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Hysteria : : the biography /\ Andrew Scull
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2009
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| Series Statement
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Biographies of disease
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| Page. NO
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vii, 223 p. :: ill. ;; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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9780199560967 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 019956096X (hardback : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Prologue : suffocation of the mother -- Mysteria -- Neurologie -- An English malady? -- Reflexly mad -- American nervousness -- A hysterical circus -- Freudian hysterics -- The wounds of war -- L'hystérie morte?
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| Abstract
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The story of hysteria is a curious one, for it persists as an illness for centuries before disappearing. Andrew Scull gives a fascinating account of this socially constructed disease that came to be strongly associated with women, showing the shifts in social, cultural, and medical perceptions through history
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| Subject
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Hysteria-- History
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Hysteria-- history
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History, Modern 1601-
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| Dewey Classification
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616.85/24
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| LC Classification
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RC532.S38 2009
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2009 M-071
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WM 11.1S437h 2009
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