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Pauline B. Bart, Social Structure and Vocabularies of Discomfort: What Happened to Female Hysteria?, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 9, No. 3, Special Issue on Psychiatry and Its Users (Sep., 1968), pp. 188-193
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