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Publication: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Publication Date: 01-JUN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Georges Didi-Huberman's Invention of Hysteria is a remarkable study of Jean-Martin Charcot's late-nineteenth century use of the camera as a Cartesian tool with which to master so-called "hysteria" and the (female) inmates of the Paris Salpetriere who were said to be suffering from the disease. In 1877, under the editorship of Desire-Magloire Bourneville and Paul Regnard, Charcot published the first issue of the Iconographie photographique de la Salpetriere, with other issues to follow, all featuring serial photographs (mostly portraits) of hysteria patients...

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