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Title City of incurable women / Maud Casey.
Author Casey, Maud, author.
Publication Info. New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2022.
©2022
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Library Central  FIC CAS    Check Shelves
 West Oaks  FIC CAS    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 126 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?" wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history's ghosts, they have been revived at last by Maud Casey in City of Incurable Women as complex, flesh-and-blood people, dispossessed and marginalized due to their gender and class but with their own stories to tell. These linked, evocative prose portraits, accompanied by period photographs and medical documents both authentic and re-imagined, poignantly restore the humanity to the 19th century female psychiatric patients confined in Paris's Salpêtrière hospital and reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his male students-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Hysteria -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Women patients -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Salpêtrière (Hospital) -- Fiction.
Salpêtrière (Hospital) (OCoLC)fst00521328
Psychiatric hospital patients. (OCoLC)fst01081030
Women patients. (OCoLC)fst01178264
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
1800-1899
Genre Fictional Work (DNLM)D022922
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Historical fiction.
Medical fiction.
Novels.
ISBN 9781942658863 (paperback) : $16.99
1942658869 (paperback)
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