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Author Casey, Maud, author.

Title City of incurable women / Maud Casey.

Publication Info. New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2022.
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F CASEY, M.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION CASEY    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F CASEY    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  CASEY, MAUD    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC CASEY    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 126 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?" wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history's ghosts, they have been revived at last by Maud Casey in City of Incurable Women as complex, flesh-and-blood people, dispossessed and marginalized due to their gender and class but with their own stories to tell. These linked, evocative prose portraits, accompanied by period photographs and medical documents both authentic and re-imagined, poignantly restore the humanity to the 19th century female psychiatric patients confined in Paris's Salpêtrière hospital and reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his male students-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Hysteria -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Women patients -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Salpêtrière (Hospital)
Salpêtrière (Hospital) (OCoLC)fst00521328
Psychiatric hospital patients. (OCoLC)fst01081030
Women patients. (OCoLC)fst01178264
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781942658863 (paperback)
1942658869 (paperback)
9781942658900 (electronic publication)
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