How the brain lost its mind : sex, hysteria, and the riddle of mental illness / Allan H. Ropper, MD...
How the brain lost its mind : sex, hysteria, and the riddle of mental illness / Allan H. Ropper, MD...
How the brain lost its mind : sex, hysteria, and the riddle of mental illness / Allan H. Ropper, MD and Brian David Burrell.
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New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2019]
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G 2019/4644
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English
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xiv, 242 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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unmediated
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volume
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New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2019]
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New York (State)
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[2019]
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"The remarkable, intertwined histories of neurology, psychiatry, neurosyphilis, and hysteria, and the derailing of a coordinated approach to mental illness. In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpetriere Hospital, a place that was called a "grand asylum of hum...
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How the brain lost its mind : sex, hysteria, and the riddle of mental illness / Allan H. Ropper, MD and Brian David Burrell.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228) and index.
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G 2019/4644
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74VKV5RWjL4b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV5RWjL4b
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9780735214552 hardcover
0735214557 hardcover
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612.82
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991024268452502626
