From hysteria to hormones : a rhetorical history / Amy Koerber.

  • Koerber, Amy (Amy Lunn)
Date:
[2018]
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Description

"Examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word 'hormone' and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women's health"--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]

Physical description

xxi, 239 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-233) and index.

Contents

Hormones and hysteria : a rhetorical topology -- Hysteria from ancient texts until the nineteenth century : the womb as topological space -- Charcot's circus : nineteenth-century science of hysteria as a moment of stasis -- Stasis unsettled : the early twentieth-century rise of endocrinology -- Topology of sex difference : a long history of men saying outrageous things about women's reproductive organs -- Illuminating women : metaphor and movement after centuries of "groping in the dark" -- This is your [female] brain on hormones : enthymeme in contemporary discourse -- From hysteria to hormones.

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    Medical Collection
    WA309.1 2018K77f
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ISBN

  • 9780271080864
  • 0271080868