Hysteria, Paperback - Andrew Scull

A fascinating account of this socially constructed disease that came to be strongly associated with women, showing the shifts, cultural and medical...

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O istorie culturala a nebuniei (editia 2023) - Andrew Scull

Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical pers...

Contributor(s): Author: Andrew ScullMadness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar,...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Andrew ScullNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 240 x 41Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

'A brilliant cultural history ... Scull's book fills a gap in the literature and deserves to be widely read ... outstanding' The Times

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In a dying world of wild magic, shapeshifters and warring tyrants an unlikely fellowship is formed of self-righteous outlaws, crippled turncoats an...

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Bollas offers an original and illuminating theory of hysteria that weaves its well-known features - repressed sexual ideas; indifference to convers...

The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the most pervasive of human disorders - yet at the same time it is the most elus...

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A groundbreaking new book about the nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focussing on the renowned Salpetriere Hospital in Paris.

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Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Georges (Directeur d'etudes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) Didi-HubermanIllustration(s): 107 ill...

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Argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Spain was part of a...

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Following a near-death experience, Georgina Scull set out to meet others who had faced their own mortality and find out what it means to have a lif...

DescriptionWelcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics Math Hysteria contains twenty quirky tales of mathematical exploration...

The remarkable, intertwined histories of neurology, psychiatry, neurosyphilis and hysteria, by the authors of the Sunday Times top ten bestseller R...

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