Invention of hysteria
Charcot and the photographic iconography of the Salpêtrière
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Author
Contributions
- Charcot, J. M. 1825-1893. - Contributor
Publication
2003 - MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
93,250 words, Guess
Page Count
373 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL15542205M
- ISBN-100262042150
- OCLC Control Number50149667
- OCLC Control Numberinventionhysteri00didi
- Library of Congress Control Number2002029382
and 2 more
- Goodreads2581462
- LibraryThing669903
Classifications
- LCCRC532 .D5313 2003
Description
"In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman shows the crucial role played by photography in the invention of the category of hysteria. Under the direction of the medical teacher and clinician Jean-Martin Charcot, the inmates of the Salpetriere identified as hysterics were methodically photographed, providing skeptical colleagues with visual proof of hysteria's specific form. These images, many of which appear in this book, provided the materials for the multivolume album Iconographie photographique de la Salpetriere."--Jacket.
Subjects
Topics
Genres
- Pictorial works.
Other Editions
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