A cursing brain? : the histories of Tourette syndrome / / Howard I. Kushner
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1999 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii ) : ill., ports |
| Disciplina: | 616.83 |
| Soggetto topico: | Tourette syndrome - History |
| Tic disorders | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A cursing brain |
| ISBN: | 0-674-03986-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814418003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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