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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495863803321

Titolo

Hysteria beyond Freud / / Sander Gilman ... [et al.] [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1993

ISBN

0-585-23961-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 478 p. ) : ill. ;

Altri autori (Persone)

GilmanSander L

Disciplina

616.85/24/009

Soggetti

Hysteria - History

Hysteria - Social aspects - History

Social Environment

Hysteria - History - Social aspects

Hysteria

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Sociology

Personality Disorders

Social Sciences

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena

Mental Disorders

Psychiatry and Psychology

Psychiatric Disorders, Individual

Psychiatry

Health & Biological Sciences

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Contributors include Sander Gilman, Helen King, G. S. Rousseau, Roy Porter, Elaine Showalter.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Once upon a text: hysteria from Hippocrates / Helen King -- "Strange pathology": hysteria in the early modern world, 1500-1800 / G.S. Rousseau -- Body and the mind, the doctor and the patient: negotiating hysteria / Roy Porter -- Hysteria, feminism, and gender / Elaine Showalter -- Image of the hysteric / Sander L. Gilman.