The nineteenth-century study of hysteria at the Salpêtrière hospital was a medical project, but also a theatrical one. The hysteric's public appearance was a

We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well of “hysterical” discussions on diverse topics such as the

The first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development of photography and of the medical category of hyster

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On psychopathology of everyday life