Salpetriere: Horror Chamber of the Sexual Lunatics by John Dodd, Jean-Martin Charcot
Salpetriere: Horror Chamber of the Sexual Lunatics

John Dodd, Jean-Martin Charcot

Salpetriere: Horror Chamber of the Sexual Lunatics

John Dodd, Jean-Martin Charcot

200 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

dark informative reflective medium-paced

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The invention of “female hysteria” and accompanying photographic experiments by Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot were condemned by some as “sexually depraved”, but hailed by Andre Breton and the Surrealists as the visual apotheosis of “l’amour fou”. Conduc...

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