Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris: The Culture of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Asti Hustvedt
Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris: The Culture of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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Asti Hustvedt
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Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris: The Culture of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Asti Hustvedt

384 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science dark informative medium-paced
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A fascinating study of three young female hysterics who shaped our early notions of psychology.Blanche, Augustine, and Geneviève found themselves in the hysteria ward of the Salpetrière Hospital in 1870s Paris, where their care was directed by the...

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