The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual SatisfactionJohns Hopkins University Press, 15/01/1999 - 181 من الصفحات Winner of the Herbert Feis Prize from the American Historical Association Winner of the AFGAGMAS Biennial Book AwardWinner of the Science Award from the American Foundation for Gender and Genital Medicine From the time of Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging female patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western physicians in the treatment of "hysteria," an ailment once considered both common and chronic in women. Doctors loathed this time-consuming procedure and for centuries relied on midwives. Later, they substituted the efficiency of mechanical devices, including the electric vibrator, invented in the 1880s. In The Technology of Orgasm, Rachel Maines offers readers a stimulating, surprising, and often humorous account of hysteria and its treatment throughout the ages, focusing on the development, use, and fall into disrepute of the vibrator as a legitimate medical device. |
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... means of massage on the physician's table . I shall place this disease paradigm in the context of androcentric definitions of sexuality , which explain both why such treatments were socially and ethically permissible for doctors and why ...
... means " very funny . " The usage has shifted from the technical designation of a disease paradigm to much more ... meaning simply “ that which proceeds from the uterus . " " Hysterical " thus combines in its connota- tions the pejorative ...
... means of providing them to be routine , con- venient , and affordable . Since physicians at all times and places have had to acquire a large number of very diverse skills , any area of practice that could be partially deskilled by ...