City of incurable women /

City of incurable women /

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Author / Creator:	Casey, Maud, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	126 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Salpêtrière (Hospital) Salpêtrière (Hospital) Hysteria -- France -- History -- 19th century. Women patients -- France -- History -- 19th century. Psychiatric hospital patients -- France -- History -- 19th century. Psychiatric hospital patients. Women patients. France. Historical fiction. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12703851

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ISBN:	9781942658863 1942658869 9781942658900
Notes:	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--

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