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Medical Muses
A groundbreaking new book about the misogynistic nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focusing on the renowned Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. 'Fascinating and beautifully …
The Decadent Reader
In France at the end of the nineteenth century, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture as the …
Medical Muses
A groundbreaking new book about the misogynistic nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focusing on the renowned Salp tri re Hospital in Paris.'Fascinating and beautifully …
A Society without Fathers or Husbands
A fascinating account of the Na society, which functions without the institution of marriage.The Na of China, farmers in the Himalayan region, live without the institution of …
Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
In the 1870s, three women--Blanch, Augustine, and Genevieve--found themselves in the hysteria ward of the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris under the direction of the prominent …