From hysteria to hormones : a rhetorical history / / Amy Koerber

• Autore: Koerber Amy (Amy Lunn)
• Pubblicazione: University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 613.04244
• Soggetto topico: Rhetoric; Hormones - History; Hysteria - History; Women - Health and hygiene - History
• Soggetto non controllato: Science communication; feminist theory; health communication; medical rhetoric; rhetoric of health and medicine; rhetorical theory; women’s health
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Hormones and hysteria : a rhetorical topology -- Hysteria from ancient texts until the nineteenth century : the womb as topological space -- Charcot's circus : nineteenth-century science of hysteria as a moment of stasis -- Stasis unsettled : the early twentieth-century rise of endocrinology -- Topology of sex difference : a long history of men saying outrageous things about women's reproductive organs -- Illuminating women : metaphor and movement after centuries of "groping in the dark" -- This is your [female] brain on hormones : enthymeme in contemporary discourse -- From hysteria to hormones.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word 'hormone' and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women's health"--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: From hysteria to hormones
• ISBN: 0-271-08155-4; 0-271-08157-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814242103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.