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9780271080857 Academic Inspection Copy

From Hysteria to Hormones

A Rhetorical History
  • ISBN-13: 9780271080857
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Amy Koerber
  • Price: AUD $217.00
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  • Local release date: 01/03/2018
  • Format: Hardback 264 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Gynaecology & obstetrics [MJT]
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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.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Hormones and Hysteria: A Rhetorical Topology

2. Hysteria from Ancient Texts until the Nineteenth Century: The Womb as Topological Space 3. Charcot’s Circus: Nineteenth-Century Science of Hysteria as a Moment of Stasis

4. Stasis Unsettled: The Early Twentieth-Century Rise of Endocrinology

5. Topology of Sex Difference: A Long History of Men Saying Outrageous Things about Women’s Reproductive Organs

6. Illuminating Women: Metaphor and Movement after Centuries of “Groping in the Dark”

7. This Is Your [Female] Brain on Hormones: Enthymeme in Contemporary Discourse

8. From Hysteria to Hormones

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Another valuable entry in the growing area of rhetorical history of medical rhetorics.”

—John Lynch, The Quarterly Journal of Speech

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