Hysteria in Performance
- Author
- Jenn Cole
- Content
- xiii + 234 pp., ill., bibl., index
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Description
- Examines women who were diagnosed with hysteria at the Salpêtrière hospital in 19th-century Paris, Jean-Martin Charcot's lecture series featuring patients who exhibited their symptoms before audiences of primarly upper-class men, treatment of women at the facility, harm, and ethics.
- Main subject
- Health and Medicine
Theater
Psychology - ISBN
- 9780228005568 (cloth); 9780228005575 (pap.); 9780228007203 (ebook)
- Citation
- Cole, Jenn. Hysteria in Performance. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. Sylvia. Accessed April 24, 2024. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1926.
- Updated
- 02-15-2022