Medical Muses: Hysteria in 19th-Century Paris by Asti Hustvedt

Medical Muses: Hysteria in 19th-Century Paris

Asti Hustvedt

372 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science informative medium-paced
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In 1862 the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris became the epicenter of the study of hysteria, the mysterious illness then thought to affect half of all women. There, prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot's contentious methods caused furore within t...

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