Book ID: CBB000201972

Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery (2002)

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Stacey, Michelle (Author)


Jeremy P. Tarcher, Putnam


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: 336 pp., illus., maps, bibl.
Language: English

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Authors & Contributors
Komagamine, Tomoko
Nardone, Raffaele
Hirata, Koichi
Jarrell, John
Ropper, Allan H.
Brigo, Francesco
Journals
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
History of Psychiatry
Würzburger Medizinhistorische Mitteilungen
Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation
Medical History
Late Imperial China
Publishers
Dalhousie University (Canada)
Boston University
Avery
New York, City University of
Indiana University
Concepts
Hysteria
Mental disorders and diseases
Medicine
Psychiatry
Women and health
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
People
Charcot, Jean Martin
Al-Akhawayni Bokhari, Abu Bakr Rabee Ibn Ahmad
Janet, Pierre
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
17th century
20th century
18th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Places
France
England
United States
Spain
Denmark
China
Institutions
Salpêtrière, Paris
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