LEADER 03444nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910780813903321 005 20230126125731.0 010 $a1-383-04603-4 010 $a0-19-162333-4 010 $a1-282-38320-5 010 $a9786612383205 010 $a0-19-157180-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000000000893 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001674830 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000338852 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL472375 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10358298 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL238320 035 $a(OCoLC)505429928 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC472375 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000000893 100 $a20090701d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHysteria$b[electronic resource] $ethe biography /$fAndrew Scull 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource ( 223 p.) $cill 225 1 $aBiographies of disease 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-969298-X 311 $a0-19-956096-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue : suffocation of the mother -- Mysteria -- Neurologie -- An English malady? -- Reflexly mad -- American nervousness -- A hysterical circus -- Freudian hysterics -- The wounds of war -- L'hyste?rie morte? 330 $aThe nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no longer exists. In this fascinating account, Andrew Scull tells the story of Hysteria - an illness that disappeared not through medical endeavour, but through growing understanding and cultural change. More generally, it raises the question of how diseases are framed, and how conceptions of a disease change through history.The lurid history of hysteria makes fascinating reading. Charcot's clinics showed off flamboyantly 'hysterical' patients taking on sexualized poses, and among the visiting professionals was one Sigmund Freud. Scull discusses the origins of the idea of hysteria, the development of a neurological approach by John Sydenham and others, hysteria as a fashionable condition, and its growth from the 17th century. Some regarded it as a peculiarly English malady, 'the natural concomitant of England'sgreater civilization and refinement'. Women were the majority of patients, and the illness became associated with female biology, resulting in some gruesome 'treatments'. Charcot and Freud were key practitioners defining the nature of the illness. But curiously, the illness seemed to swap gender duringthe First World War when male hysterics frequently suffering from shell shock were also subjected to brutal 'treatments'. Subsequently, the 'disease' declined and eventually disappeared, at least in professional circles, though attenuated elements remain, reclassified for instance as post-traumatic stress disorder. 410 0$aBiographies of disease (Oxford, England) 606 $aHysteria$xHistory 606 $aPsychiatry$xHistory 615 0$aHysteria$xHistory. 615 0$aPsychiatry$xHistory. 676 $a616.85/24 700 $aScull$b Andrew T$0218307 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780813903321 996 $aHysteria$93825652 997 $aUNINA