About this title: In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman shows the crucial role played by photography in the invention of the category of hysteria. Under the direction of the medical teacher and clinician Jean-Martin Charcot, the inmates of Salpetriere identified as hysterics were methodically photographed ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780262042154ISBN:0262042150
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 2003-07-13
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Binding: hardcover
Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Ma
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780262042154ISBN:0262042150
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 2004-10-01
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