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Hysteria: The Biography (Biographies of Disease) by Andrew T. Scull is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hysteria: The Biography (Biographies of Disease) 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 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 history. The lurid history of hysteria makes fas
Who reads Hysteria: The Biography (Biographies of Disease)?
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
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199692989
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Medical, Science, Psychology
- Rating
- 3.54 / 5 (44 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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