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Perilous chastity : women and illness in pre-Enlightenment art and medicine

Author: Laurinda S Dixon
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Laurinda S Dixon
ISBN: 0801430267 9780801430268 0801482151 9780801482151
OCLC Number: 31077476
Description: xvi, 297 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents: I. Hysteria as a Uterine Disorder: A Brief History --
II. "Outward Manifestations": Symptoms and Diagnosis --
III. The Womb Inflamed, Threatened, and Denied: Instigators of Disease --
IV. The Womb Occupied, Restored, and Satiated: Corporeal Cures --
V. Mind and Body Reconciled: "Psychological" Cures --
VI. Melancholic Men and Hysterical Women: The Sexual Politics of Illness --
VII. Epilogue: Exit the Wandering Womb --
Appendix: Medical Dissertations on the Subject of Female Hysteria Written between 1575 and 1740.
Responsibility: Laurinda S. Dixon.

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