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Hysteria: The Biography (Biographies of Diseases) by Andrew T. Scull is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hysteria: The Biography (Biographies of Diseases) about?
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 endeavor, but through growing understanding and cultural change. The lurid history of hysteria makes fascinating reading. Charcot's clinics showed off flamboyantly "hysterical" patients taking on sexualized poses, and among the visiting professionals was one Sigmund Freud. Scull discusses the origins of the idea of hysteria, the development of a neurological approach by John Sydenham and others, hysteria as a fashionable condition, and its growth from the 17th century. Subsequently, the "disease" declined and eventually disappeared. Review "Neat and well-structured, written in a lively and stimulating style. It is much more than a superior work of historical systhesis. Scull expertly traces the story of hysteria as concept, diagnosis, cultural expression and lived experience, from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, and sheds new light and offers new insights throughout. As an introduction to the turbulent and
Who reads Hysteria: The Biography (Biographies of Diseases)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Andrew T. Scull
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781282383203
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Medical, Psychology, Science
- Rating
- 3.54 / 5 (44 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
