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On Hysteria电子书

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作       者:Arnaud, Sabine

出  版  社:University of Chicago Press

出版时间:2015-10-14

字       数:266.8万

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These days, hysteria is known as a discredited diagnosis that was used to group and pathologize a wide range of conditions and behaviors in women. But for a long time, it was seen as a legitimate category of medical problem-and one that, originally, was applied to men as often as to women.In On Hysteria, Sabine Arnaud traces the creation and rise of hysteria, from its invention in the eighteenth century through nineteenth-century therapeutic practice. Hysteria took shape, she shows, as a predominantly aristocratic malady, only beginning to cross class boundaries (and be limited to women) during the French Revolution. Unlike most studies of the role and status of medicine and its categories in this period, On Hysteria focuses not on institutions but on narrative strategies and writing-the ways that texts in a wide range of genres helped to build knowledge through misinterpretation and recontextualized citation.Powerfully interdisciplinary, and offering access to rare historical material for the first time in English, On Hysteria will speak to scholars in a wide range of fields, including the history of science, French studies, and comparative literature.
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Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 Names and Uses of a Diagnosis

The Establishment of Hysteria as a Medical Category

An Intermingling of Terms

First Occurrences of the Term “Hysteria”

Vaporous Affection and Social Class

Encounters between Medical and Religious Spheres

2 In Search of Metaphors: Figuring What Cannot Be Defined

A Catalog of Images: Proteus, the Chameleon, and the Hydra

Repeated Quotations, Divergent Readings

3 The Writing of a Pathology and Practices of Dissemination

Dialogue

Autobiography

Fictional Correspondence

The Epistolary Consultation

Anecdotes

4 Code, Truth, or Ruse? The Vapors in the Republic of Letters

Well-Timed Fits

The Practice of Vapors

The Force of the Imagination

5 Relating Fits and Creating Enigmas: The Role of Narrative

Bodies Awaiting Exegesis

The Rise of Medical Narrative

In the Shadow of a Gothic Tale

Traps and Countertraps

The Construction of Secrets

6 Adopting Roles and Redefining Medicine

To Mystify or to Demystify? Establishing the Role of the Therapist

Magnetism, Parodies, and Mystification: The Art of Framing a Therapeutic Practice

Strategies of Legitimation and Definitions of the Patient to Come

Investing in Women

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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