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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... disease but that from at the least the fourth century B.C. until the American Psychiatric Association dropped the term in 1952 , was known mainly as hysteria.3 This purported disease and its sister ailments displayed a symptomatology ...
... disease paradigm of hysteria had only a few common elements . Ilsa Veith's magisterial 1965 work Hysteria : The History of a Disease pro- vides a comprehensive and well - documented overview of the evolution of a disease paradigm that ...
... disease . This hypothesis proved so appealing that it soon eclipsed all other discourse about hysteria , neurasthenia , and chlorosis . Some mavericks like Wilhelm Reich con- tinued to argue as late as 1927 that neurasthenia and ...