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Author Casey, Maud, author.

Title City of incurable women / Maud Casey.

Publisher New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2022.
©2022.

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 WCCC Calais Stacks  PS 3553 .A79338 C58 2022    AVAILABLE  
 York PL Fiction  Fic Casey, M    AVAILABLE  
Edition First edition.
Physical Description 126 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored. An exploration of thetype of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria - and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men.
Subject Hysteria -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Women patients -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Salpêtrière (Hospital)
Historical fiction.