Medical Muses

The Culture of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

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Asti Hustvedt: Medical Muses (2011, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.)

384 pages

English language

Published 2011 by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W..

ISBN:
978-0-393-08217-3
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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.

6 editions

Subjects

  • Charcot, j. m. (jean martin), 1825-1893
  • Hysteria
  • Psychiatry, history
  • Neurologists, biography
  • Paris (france), history