Asti Hustvedt: 1 book

Book cover of Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
by Asti Hustvedt
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011

A fascinating study of three young female hysterics who shaped our early notions of psychology. Blanche, Augustine, and Genevieve found themselves in the hysteria ward of the Salpetriere Hospital in 1870s Paris, where their care was directed by the prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot....
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