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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... Salpêtrière in the 1890s , when Freud was a visiting student there ; Gilles de la Tourette reports that it was applied locally to the " hyperaesthetic " areas on the " front of the trunk . " 32 Walter McClellan , who practiced ...
... Salpêtrière . One of John Harvey Kellogg's biographers credits his subject with inventing the jolting chair as well as Taylor's " Manipulator , " but the indefatigable Kellogg was in fact a John - Harvey - Come - Lately where thera ...
... Salpêtrière . The collec- tions and the environment are both rich and fascinating . Bibliographic access to the popular periodicals I have cited here is very difficult . The magazines themselves are hard to find and , when found , are ...