Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière

by Georges Didi-Huberman

Book Overview

The first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development of photography and of the medical category of hysteria.

In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262541807
• ISBN13: 9780262541800
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher