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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820225503321

Autore

Micale Mark S. <1957->

Titolo

Hysterical men : the hidden history of male nervous illness / / Mark S. Micale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-674-04098-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (383 p.)

Disciplina

616.85/240081

Soggetti

Hysteria - History

Men - Mental health - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-347) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hysterick women and hypochondriack men -- The great Victorian eclipse -- Charcot and La grande hysterie masculine -- Male hysteria at the fin de siecle -- Freud and the origins of psychoanalysis.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the course of several centuries, Western masculinity has successfully established itself as the voice of reason, knowledge, and sanity - he basis for patriarchal rule - in the face of massive testimony to the contrary. This book boldly challenges this triumphant vision of the stable and secure male by examining the central role played by modern science and medicine in constructing and sustaining it.