Rachael Dodd has functional neurological disorder, a modern “hysteria” at the centre of a medical misogyny Venn diagram.

Today, most scholars argue that the blanket disease hysteria was always a figment of doctors' imaginations.As outright ...

“He took the time to listen and investigate.” Dodd has functional neurological disorder (FND): a modern “hysteria” at the centre of a medical misogyny Venn diagram. FND can manifest as ...

Charcot took an interest in the malady then called hysteria. It seemed to be a mental disorder with physical manifestations, of immediate interest to a neurologist. He believed that hysteria was ...