Medical muses, hysteria in nineteenth-century Paris, Asti Hustvedt
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Medical muses, hysteria in nineteenth-century Paris, Asti Hustvedt
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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collective biography
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
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Medical muses
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bibliography
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668194841
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Asti Hustvedt
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hysteria in nineteenth-century Paris
Summary
Depicts the lives of three French women who became unwitting celebrities after being committed to the hysteria ward of Salpetrière Hospital in 1870s Paris and delves into the treatment they received from noted French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot
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