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Charcot and the photographic iconography of the Salpêtrière

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An edition of Invention of Hysteria (2003)

Invention of hysteria

Charcot and the photographic iconography of the Salpêtrière

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"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.

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MIT Press
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Mental illness, Hysteria, History, Pictorial works, Facial expression

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Pictorial works.

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RC532 .D5313 2003, RC532.D5313 2003

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xii, 373 p. :
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