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Hysterical Men : The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness / Mark S MICALE.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674031661
  • 9780674040984
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.85/240081 22
LOC classification:
  • RC532 .M533 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Usage -- PROLOGUE Hysteria: The Male Malady -- CHAPTER 1. Hysterick Women and Hypochondriack Men -- CHAPTER 2. The Great Victorian Eclipse -- CHAPTER 3. Charcot and La Grande Hystérie Masculine -- CHAPTER 4. Male Hysteria at the Fin de Siècle -- CHAPTER 5. Freud and the Origins of Psychoanalysis -- CONCLUSION. Men and the Fictions of Medicine -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Over the course of several centuries, Western masculinity has successfully established itself as the voice of reason, knowledge, and sanity - he basis for patriarchal rule - in the face of massive testimony to the contrary. This book boldly challenges this triumphant vision of the stable and secure male by examining the central role played by modern science and medicine in constructing and sustaining it.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674040984

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Usage -- PROLOGUE Hysteria: The Male Malady -- CHAPTER 1. Hysterick Women and Hypochondriack Men -- CHAPTER 2. The Great Victorian Eclipse -- CHAPTER 3. Charcot and La Grande Hystérie Masculine -- CHAPTER 4. Male Hysteria at the Fin de Siècle -- CHAPTER 5. Freud and the Origins of Psychoanalysis -- CONCLUSION. Men and the Fictions of Medicine -- Notes -- Index

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Over the course of several centuries, Western masculinity has successfully established itself as the voice of reason, knowledge, and sanity - he basis for patriarchal rule - in the face of massive testimony to the contrary. This book boldly challenges this triumphant vision of the stable and secure male by examining the central role played by modern science and medicine in constructing and sustaining it.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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