Minggu, 01 Juli 2012

Medical Muses Pdf

Medical Muses
Author: Asti Hustvedt
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: B00AZ94KUM

A fascinating study of three young female hysterics who shaped our early notions of psychology. Download Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. /strong>Blanche, Augustine, and GeneviAve found themselves in the hysteria ward of the SalpetriAre Hospital in 1870s Paris, where their care was directed by the prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. They became medical celebrities: every week, eager crowds arrived at the hospital to observe their symptoms; they were photographed, sculpted, painted, and transformed into characters in novels. The remarkable story of their lives as patients in the clinic is a strange amalgam of intimate details and public exposure, science and religion, medicine and the occult, hypnotism, love, and theater.

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