Perilous chastity : women and illness in pre-Enlightenment art and medicine / Laurinda S. Dixon.
Perilous chastity : women and illness in pre-Enlightenment art and medicine / Laurinda S. Dixon.
Perilous chastity : women and illness in pre-Enlightenment art and medicine / Laurinda S. Dixon.
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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.
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1995.
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N760.0449618/1
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English
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xvi, 297 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents
I. Hysteria as a Uterine Disorder: A Brief History -- II. "Outward Manifestations": Symptoms and Diagnosis -- III. The Womb Inflamed, Threatened, and Denied: Instigators of Disease -- IV. The Womb Occupied, Restored, and Satiated: Corporeal Cures -- V. Mind and Body Reconciled: "Psychological" Cures...
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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.
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New York (State)
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1995.
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Perilous chastity : women and illness in pre-Enlightenment art and medicine / Laurinda S. Dixon.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-292] and index.
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N760.0449618/1
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74VMBLLPdNgl
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0801482151 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801430268 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0801430267 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780801482151 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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760.0449618
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991002398669702626
