A groundbreaking new book about the nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focussing on the renowned Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris.
Asti Hustvedt is an independent scholar who has written extensively on hysteria and literature. She has a PhD in French literature from New York University, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Phi Betta Kapa Fellowship. She is the editor of The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France and has published many translations. She lives in New York City.
Fascinating and beautifully written
*Guardian*
Fascinating ... gives us a disturbing insight into the extent to
which doctors, patients and diseases, both then and now, are
products of their time
*Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times*
Thoughtful and engrossing
*Miranda Seymour, Daily Telegraph*
The thoroughly researched, very readable material brings to life
their strange and remarkable stories, told in meticulous detail, as
well as the brilliance and brutality of the great physician
*Independent*
Consistently enthralling
*Kathryn Harrison, New York Times*
Fascinating ... This account of psychiatry in its infancy is
unforgettable
*Independent on Sunday*
Asti Hustvedt has tapped into a deeply fascinating seam of medical
history here ... Her descriptions of patients, and of Jean-Martin
Charcot, the doctor who treated them, are peerless
*Scotsman*
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