Mass hysteria in Le Roy, New York: How brain experts materialized truth and outscienced environmental inquiry

Teenage schoolgirls in Le Roy, New York, captured the attention of the U.S. public in 2011 and 2012 when they developed acute motor and vocal tics. Dramatic images of the girls' involuntary movements were briefly seen on national news and social media before clinical neurologists diagnosed the...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American ethnologist 2015-11, Vol.42 (4), p.640-657
Hauptverfasser:	GOLDSTEIN, DONNA M., HALL, KIRA
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	brain imaging Cultural anthropology environmental toxicity expertise Girls Illness Illnesses LeRoy New York mass hysteria Mass psychogenic illness media discourse Medical diagnosis mimicry Neurology Social psychology
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