Letters on Mesmerism
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- Author: Harriet Martineau
- Date Published: May 2011
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108027403
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Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) was a British writer who was one of the first social theorists to examine all aspects of a society, including class, religion, national character and the status of women. Seriously ill in the early 1840s, she turned to alternative remedies, and underwent a course of mesmerism, to which she attributed her remarkable restoration to health. She published her account of the treatment in a series of letters in the Athenaeum in December 1844, and subsequently in book form, and her cure caused a sensation, adding greatly to public interest in mesmerism. To her fury, her doctor (and brother-in-law) T. M. Greenhow defended his own treatment of her in a remarkably detailed account of her illness, which she regarded as a serious breach of patient confidentiality, and his pamphlet is appended to Martineau's work in this reissue.
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- Date Published: May 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108027403
- length: 112 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 7 mm
- weight: 0.16kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Mesmeric experience
2. Mesmeric observation
3. Spirit of inquiry
4. Spirit of conviction
5. Freedom of acceptance
Appendix. Medical report of the case of Miss H[arriet] M[artineau] T. M. Greenhow.
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