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In the mid-19th century, a French physician reported the bizarre behaviour of a young aristocratic woman who would suddenly, without warning, erupt in a startling fit of obscene shouts and curses. Tourette syndrome is a set of behavours, including recurrent ticcing and involuntary shouting (sometimes cursing) as well as obsessive-compulsive actions. The history of this syndrome, as described in this text, reveals how cultural and medical assumptions have determined and radically altered its characterization and treatment from the early-19th century to the late 1990s.
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A Cursing Brain?, Howard I. Kushner
- Language
- Released
- 1999
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- A Cursing Brain?
- Subtitle
- The Histories of Tourette Syndrome
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Howard I. Kushner
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Released
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 303
- ISBN10
- 0674180224
- ISBN13
- 9780674180222
- Series
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Science, USA, Medicine, Neuroscience, History of Science, Neurology, Etiology, Tourette Syndrome
- Description
- In the mid-19th century, a French physician reported the bizarre behaviour of a young aristocratic woman who would suddenly, without warning, erupt in a startling fit of obscene shouts and curses. Tourette syndrome is a set of behavours, including recurrent ticcing and involuntary shouting (sometimes cursing) as well as obsessive-compulsive actions. The history of this syndrome, as described in this text, reveals how cultural and medical assumptions have determined and radically altered its characterization and treatment from the early-19th century to the late 1990s.