From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History
From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History
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从歇斯底里到荷尔蒙：修辞史
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2018
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John A. Lynch
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John A. Lynch
历史、修辞学和其他人文学科中的女性主义医学研究指出，男性医学专业人员不成比例地将目光集中在女性的身体上，但认为女性描述的一系列症状是神秘的，如果不是不可能理解的话。几个世纪以来，“歇斯底里”的诊断被医学界用来解释几乎所有困扰妇女的疾病。虽然这种诊断在世纪初基本上消失了，但对女性“神秘身体”的痴迷仍在继续。这段长达几个世纪的历史是Amy Koerber的《从歇斯底里到激素：修辞史》的重点。她的中心论点是，荷尔蒙取代了歇斯底里，成为女性身体和医疗状况的一种解释：
Feminist studies of medicine in history, rhetoric, and other humanities disciplines have noted that male medical professionals disproportionately focused their gaze on women’s bodies yet argued that the array of symptoms women described were mysterious, if not impossible for them to understand. The diagnosis of “hysteria” was used by medicine for centuries to explain almost every condition that ailed women. While the diagnosis largely disappeared in the beginning of the twentieth century, the obsession over women’s “mysterious bodies” continues. This centuries-long history is the focus of Amy Koerber’s From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History. Her central contention is that hormones replaced hysteria as an explanation for women’s bodies and medical conditions: