Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations by Mark S. Micale

Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations

Mark S. Micale

344 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction health history psychology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Few diseases have exercised the Western imagination as chronically as hysteria--from the wandering womb of ancient Greek medicine, to the demonically possessed witch of the Renaissance; from the vaporous salong women of Enlightenment Paris, throug...

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