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

Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Asti Hustvedt

372 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science dark informative medium-paced
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A fascinating study of three young female hysterics who shaped our early notions of psychology.Blanche, Augustine, and Geneviève found themselves in the hysteria ward of the Salpetrière Hospital in 1870s Paris, where their care was directed by the...

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