76: Mass Hysteria: The Dancing Plague

Our Patrons chose Mass Hysteria as the episode topic this week, so we’re talking about The Dancing Plague! In 1518 a French town was overcome with a contagious conclusion to dance til they dropped... 

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References and Further Reading 

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3536509/
2. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-quackery/history-hysteria
3. https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/The_nocebo_response
4. https://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/the-power-of-the-placebo-effect
5. https://www.britannica.com/science/psychosomatic-disorder
6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480686/
7. https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518
8. https://www.britannica.com/event/dancing-plague-of-1518
9. https://journals.lww.com/epidem/FullText/2010/09000/Frequency_and_Predictors_of_Mass_Psychogenic.31.aspx

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