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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962442103321

Autore

Kushner Howard I

Titolo

A cursing brain? : the histories of Tourette syndrome / / Howard I. Kushner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1999

ISBN

9780674039865

0674039866

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii ) : ill., ports

Disciplina

616.83

Soggetti

Tourette syndrome - History

Tic disorders

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. [229]-290) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.