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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... Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds ( London , 1841 ; reprint New York : Farrar , Straus and Giroux , 1972 ) , 318 , 323 ; see also Geoffrey Sutton , " Electric Medicine and Mesmerism , " Isis 72 , no . 263 ( 1981 ) : 375-92 ...
... Popular Treatise on Venereal Diseases of the Male and Female Genital System ( New York : J. S. Redfield , 1844 ) , 165 . 60. Robert Brudenell Carter , On the Pathology and Treatment of Hysteria ( London : John Churchill , 1853 ) ...
... popular histories . I recommend Susan Cayleff's dissertation " Wash and Be Healed : The Nineteenth - Century Water - Cure Movement , 1840-1900 " ( 1983 ) ; Jane Donegan's Hydropathic Highway to Health : Women and Water - Cure in ...