Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

by Asti Hustvedt

Book Overview

In the 1870s, three women--Blanch, Augustine, and Genevieve--found themselves in the hysteria ward of the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris under the direction of the prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. Their illness came to define the era, and in turn 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393025608
• ISBN13: 9780393025606
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.3"