Approaching hysteria : disease and its interpretations /

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" salon women of Enlightenment Paris, through to the celebrated patients of Sigmund F...

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Main Author:	Micale, Mark S., 1957-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995]
Subjects:	Hysteria > History. Hysteria > Historiography. Hysteria > history. Historiography. Hysterie. Foreign relations > History United States
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