Hysteria Beyond Freud
  INTRODUCTION—  THE DESTINIES OF HYSTERIA

 collapse sectionPART I—  HISTORICAL
 collapse sectionOne—  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
 collapse sectionFurther Contributions to the Tradition
 •The Greek East
 •The Latin West
 •The Arab World
 •The Meeting of Three Worlds
 •Tradition or Truth?
 •Acknowledgments
 expand sectionTwo—  "A Strange Pathology":  Hysteria in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800

 collapse sectionPART II—  THEMATIC
 expand sectionThree—  The Body and the Mind, The Doctor and the Patient:  Negotiating Hysteria
 •Four—  Hysteria, Feminism, and Gender
 expand sectionFive—  The Image of the Hysteric

 expand sectionNotes
  CONTRIBUTORS
 expand sectionINDEX
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