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Autore |
Kushner Howard I |
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Titolo |
A cursing brain? : the histories of Tourette syndrome / / Howard I. Kushner |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1999 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii ) : ill., ports |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Tourette syndrome - History |
Tic disorders |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-290) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Terms -- 1. An Elusive Syndrome -- 2. The Case of the Cursing Marquise -- 3. A Disputed Illness -- 4. The Case of “O.” and the Emergence of Psychoanalysis -- 5. Competing Claims -- 6. The Disappearance of Tic Illness -- 7. Margaret Mahler and the Tic Syndrome -- 8. Haloperidol and the Persistence of the Psychogenic Frame -- 9. The French Resistance -- 10. The Triumph of the Organic Narrative -- 11. Clashing Cultural Conceptions -- 12. Clinical Lessons -- Glossary -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This text traces the problematic classification through three distinct but overlapping stories: that of the claims of medical knowledge, that of patients' experiences, and that of cultural expectations and assumptions. |
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