Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Hustvedt, Asti
Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Hustvedt, Asti

Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

In the 1870s, three women--Blanch, Augustine, and Genevieve--found themselves in the hysteria ward of the Salpetriere Hospital...
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Author: Asti Hustvedt
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Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Hustvedt, Asti

Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

CHF 70.33
Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Hustvedt, Asti

Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

CHF 70.33
Author: Asti Hustvedt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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. The remarkable story of their lives as patients in the clinic is a strange amalgam of intimate details and public exposure, science and religion, medicine and the occult, hypnotism, love, and theater.
But who were Blanche, Augustine, and Genevieve? What role did they play in their own peculiar form of stardom? And what exactly were they suffering from? Hysteria--with its dramatic seizures, hallucinations, and reenactments of past traumas--may be an illness of the past, but the notions of femininity that lie behind it offer insights into disorders of the present.



Author: Asti Hustvedt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/01/2011
Pages: 386
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780393025606


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/28/2011
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2011
New York Times Book Review 06/19/2011 pg. 13
New York Times Book Review 06/26/2011 pg. 34
Choice 01/01/2012
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 238

About the Author
Hustvedt, Asti: - Asti Hustvedt received her PhD in French literature from New York University. She has worked as an editor and translator, and lives in New York City with her family.
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