372 pages
English language
Published 2011 by W.W. Norton & Co..
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Depicts the lives of three French women who became unwitting celebrities after being committed to the hysteria ward of Salpetrière Hospital in 1870s Paris and delves into the treatment they received from noted French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot.
Subjects
- Salpêtrière (Hospital)
- Neurologists
- History, 19th Century
- Neurology
- Treatment
- Psychiatry
- History
- Biography
- Hysteria
Places
- Paris
- France