Charcot and the idea of hysteria in the male: gender, mental science, and medical diagnosis in late nineteenth-century France.

نویسنده

  • M S Micale
چکیده

On concede qu'un jeune homme effemine puisse apres des exces, des chagrins, des emotions profondes, presenter quelques phenomenes hysteriformes; mais qu'un artisan vigoureux, solide, non enerve par la culture, un chauffeur de locomotive par exemple, nullement emotif auparavant, du moins en apparence, puisse... devenir hysterique, au meme titre qu'une femme, voila, parait-il, qui depasse l'imagination. Rien n'est mieux prouve, cependant, et c'est une idee a laquelle il faudra se faire. Charcot (1885)

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Medical History

دوره 34  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1990