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Cultures of Neurasthenia: From Beard to First World War (2001)

Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke (Editor)
Porter, Roy S. (Editor)

Rodopi

Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: iv + 407 pp., illus., bibl.
Language: English

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Medicine Disease and diseases World War I Psychiatry 19th century 20th century, early Beard, George Miller

Description Contents: Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra: Introduction: Cultures of Neurasthenia from Beard to the First World War; Roy Porter: Nervousness, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Style: From Luxury to Labour; Tom Lutz: Varieties of Medical Experience: Doctors and Patients, Psyche and Soma in America; Mathew Thomson: Neurasthenia in Britain: An Overview; Chandak Sengoopta: “A Mob of Incoherent Symptoms”? Neurasthenia in British Medical Discourse, 1860-1920; Hilary Marland: “Uterine Mischief”: W. S. Playfair and his Neurasthenic Patients; Michael Neve: Public Views of Neurasthenia: Britain, 1880-1930; Doris Kaufmann: Neurasthenia in Wilhelmine Germany: Culture, Sexuality, and the Demands of Nature; Volker Roelcke: Electrified Nerves, Degenerated Bodies: Medical Discourses on Neurasthenia in Germany, circa 1880-1914; Joachim Radkau: The Neurasthenic Experience in Imperial Germany: Expeditions into Patient Records and Side-looks upon General History; Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach: The Public's View of Neurasthenia in Germany: Looking for a New Rhythm of Life; Joost Vijselaar: Neurasthenia in the Netherlands; Jessica Slijkhuis: Neurasthenia as Pandora's Box? “Zenuwachtigheid” and Dutch Psychiatry around 1900; Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra: In Search of Dutch Neurasthenics from the 1880s to the early-1920s; Nelleke Bakker: A Harmless Disease: Children and Neurasthenia in the Netherlands; Christopher E. Forth: Neurasthenia and Manhood in fin-de-siecle France; Sonu Shamdasani: Claire, Lise, Jean, Nadia, and Gisele: Preliminary Notes towards a Characterisation of Pierre Janet's Psychasthenia; List of Illustrations.

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Review Müller, Christian (2002) Review of "Cultures of Neurasthenia: From Beard to First World War". Gesnerus (p. 128). unapi

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