"A Disease Best Described by Its Etymology?: Hysteria in France at the Turn of the 19th Century"

Dr. Sabine Arnaud of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science will give a talk titled: "A Disease Best Described by its Etymology?: Hysteria in France at the Turn of the 19th Century" on Oct. 29. Dr. Sabine Arnaud is a Research Group Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She has degrees in Comparative Literature, History, Philosophy, and Art History and has written extensively on hysteria. Her book L’invention de l’hystérieau temps des Lumières (EHESS,2014) will be published in translation as On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820 by the University of Chicago Press in 2015. Her current research focuses on deafness. This event is sponsored by the Benjamin Franklin Project at IIT in partnership with the Jack Miller Center and with generous support from the John Templeton Foundation.