The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual SatisfactionJohns Hopkins University Press, 15/06/2001 - 208 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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... paradigm was by no means a Victorian invention ; its antecedents were far more venerable and deeply entrenched . In this chapter I intend to show how the disease paradigm of hyste- ria and its " sister " disorders in the Western medical ...
... paradigm.93 His definition was retroactively applied to all supposed cases of hysteria , modern or ancient , couched in terms that made it sound almost like a respectable medical diagnosis . Wesley says , " When the word hysteria is ...
... paradigm the normal functioning of women's sexuality.96 Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English , in Complaints and Disorders , discuss the apparent " epidemic " of hysteria in the nineteenth century and describe it as a " new disease ...