How the Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness

How the Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness
ISBN-10
0735214557
ISBN-13
9780735214552
Category
Medical
Pages
258
Language
English
Published
2019
Publisher
Avery
Authors
Allan H. Ropper, Brian Burrell

Description

A noted neurologist challenges the widespread misunderstanding of brain disease and mental illness to tell the rich and compelling story of two confounding ailments, syphilis and hysteria, and the extraordinary efforts to confront their effects on mental life.

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