Hysteria: The Disturbing History

by Andrew Scull

Book Overview

The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no longer exists. In this fascinating account, Andrew Scull tells the story of Hysteria - an illness that disappeared not through medical endeavour, but through growing understanding and cultural change. More generally, it raises the question of how diseases are framed, and how conceptions of a disease change through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019969298X
• ISBN13: 9780199692989
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.6"