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

by Georges Didi-Huberman

Book Overview

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 Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman shows the crucial role played by photography in the invention of the category of hysteria. Under the direction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262042150
• ISBN13: 9780262042154
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 385 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.2" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher