Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations Tapa dura - 1995

Princeton University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1st printing (1995). 327pp. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1995.

Princeton University Press, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1995 first edition hardback in near fine condition. Light pencil marks to several pages. Otherwise in fine condition. No other marks, clean and bright, tight binding, flawless black cloth boards. In its original, unclipped dust wrapper with minimal shelf wear. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.

Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 327 pages, clean copy. Few diseases have exercised the Western imagination as chronically as hysteria--from the wandering womb of ancient Greek medicine, to the demonically possessed witch of the Renaissance; from the "vaporous" salon women of Enlightenment Paris, through to the celebrated patients of Sigmund Freud, with their extravagant, erotically charged symptoms. In this fascinating and authoritative book, Mark Micale surveys the range of past and present readings of hysteria by intellectual historians; historians of science and medicine; scholars in gender studies, art history, and literature; and psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and neurologists. In so doing, he explores numerous questions raised by this ever-growing body of literature: Why, in recent years, has the history of hysterical disorders carried such resonance for commentators in the sciences… Leer más

Clean and unmarked 1st edition hardback. Boards are a bit warped.
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. Good/Very Good+. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 327pp., not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text has some ink underlining and marginalia to front half of block. DJ has mild shelfwear.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. Cloth, .xii, 327 pages; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Few diseases have exercised the Western imagination as chronically as hysteria--from the wandering womb of ancient Greek medicine, to the demonically possessed witch of the Renaissance from the 'vaporous' salon women of Enlightenment Paris, through to the celebrated patients of Sigmund Freud, with their extravagant, erotically charged symptoms. In this fascinating and authoritative book, Mark Micale surveys the range of past and present readings of hysteria by intellectual historians historians of science and medicine scholars in gender studies, art history, and literature and psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and neurologists. In so doing, he explores numerous questions raised by this ever-growing body of literature: Why, in recent years, has the history of hysterical disorders carried such… Leer más

Princeton University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. xii, 327 p. 25 cm. Navy cloth in dustjacket. Includes card signed by the author. Topics: hysteria as medical disease; feminist and nonfeminist histories; social class; hysteria as a male malady; the rise and fall of nervous diseases;