The nineteenth-century study of hysteria at the Salpêtrière hospital was a medical project, but also a theatrical one. The hysteric's public appearance was a

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The first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development of photography and of the medical category of hyster

A provocative investigation of the links between contemporary advertising images and 19th-century medical discourse.