Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Asti Hustvedt

Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Asti Hustvedt

384 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science dark informative medium-paced
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But who were Blanche, Augustine, and Genevieve? What role did they play in their own peculiar form of stardom? And what exactly were they suffering from? Hysteria--with its dramatic seizures, hallucinations, and reenactments of past traumas--may b...

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