The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual SatisfactionJohns Hopkins University Press, 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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... Charcot . Freud greatly admired and revered Charcot , and many of the teacher's ideas found their way into Freud's conceptual frameworks.82 As I show in chapter 4 , the Salpêtrière was an internationally famous center of experimentation ...
... Charcot's observation : " I do not think I am exaggerating when I assert that the great majority of severe neuroses in women have their origin in the marriage bed . ” 87 The editors of the Standard Edition of Freud's works note that ...
... Charcot , Clinical Lectures on Certain Diseases of the Nervous Sys- tem , trans . E. P. Hurd ( Detroit : G. S. Davis , 1888 ) . 86. Georges Guillain , J.-M. Charcot , 1825-1893 : His Life and Work , trans . Pearce Bailey ( New York ...