Hysteria Beyond Freud |
INTRODUCTION— THE DESTINIES OF HYSTERIA |
PART I— HISTORICAL |
One— Once upon a Text: Hysteria from Hippocrates |
• | Labels and Origins: a Name Without a Disease? |
• | Definitions: the Textual Tradition |
• | Hippocratic Hysteria: the Womb and Its Destinations |
• | Plato and Aretaeus: the Wild Womb? |
• | Stifling and Suffocation: the Development of the Textual Tradition |
• | Galen and His Influence: Winners and Losers in the Textual Tradition |
Further Contributions to the Tradition |
• | The Greek East |
• | The Latin West |
• | The Arab World |
• | The Meeting of Three Worlds |
• | Tradition or Truth? |
• | Acknowledgments |
Two— "A Strange Pathology": Hysteria in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800 |
• | I |
• | II |
• | III |
• | IV |
• | V |
• | VI |
• | VII |
• | VIII |
• | IX |
• | X |
• | XI |
• | XII |
• | XIII |
• | XIV |
• | XV |
PART II— THEMATIC |
Three— The Body and the Mind, The Doctor and the Patient: Negotiating Hysteria |
• | Diseases |
• | Hysteria/Mysteria |
• | Historiography |
• | Mind and Body: Medical Materialism and Hegemonic Idealism |
• | Continuities: Toward Nineteenth-Century Nervousness |
• | Change: Women, Body, and Scientific Medicine |
• | Problem Women: Gynecology and Hysteria |
• | Neurology and Hysteria |
• | Hysteria, Psychiatry, and the Clinical Encounter |
• | Conclusion |
• | Four— Hysteria, Feminism, and Gender |
Five— The Image of the Hysteric |
• | The Function of the "Real" Image of the Hysteric in Defining the Nature of Hysteria |
• | Toward a Theory of "Realistic Representation" in Nineteenth-Century Thought |
• | Medical and Aesthetic Models for the Representation of the Hysteric |
• | Creating a Composite Image of the Hysteric |
• | Hysteria, Race, and Gender |
Notes |
• | INTRODUCTION— THE DESTINIES OF HYSTERIA |
• | One— Once upon a Text: Hysteria from Hippocrates |
• | Two— "A Strange Pathology": Hysteria in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800 |
• | Three— The Body and the Mind, The Doctor and the Patient: Negotiating Hysteria |
• | Four— Hysteria, Feminism, and Gender |
• | Five— The Image of the Hysteric |
CONTRIBUTORS |
INDEX |
• | A |
• | B |
• | C |
• | D |
• | E |
• | F |
• | G |
• | H |
• | I |
• | J |
• | K |
• | L |
• | M |
• | N |
• | O |
• | P |
• | Q |
• | R |
• | S |
• | T |
• | U |
• | V |
• | W |
• | X |
• | Y |
• | Z |