Cultures of neurasthenia from Beard to the First World War /
Cultures of neurasthenia from Beard to the First World War /
edited by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Roy Porter.
- 1 online resource (iv, 407 pages) : illustrations.
- Wellcome series in the history of medicine Clio medica, 63 0045-7183 ; .
- Clio Medica 63. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material / Introduction: Cultures of Neurasthenia from Beard to the First World War / Nervousness, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Style: From Luxury to Labour / Varieties of Medical Experience: Doctors and Patients, Psyche and Soma in America / Neurasthenia in Britain: An Overview / 'A Mob of Incoherent Symptoms'? Neurasthenia in British Medical Discourse, 1860-1920 / 'Uterine Mischief': W.S. Playfair and his Neurasthenic Patients / Public Views of Neurasthenia: Britain, 1880-1930 / Neurasthenia in Wilhelmine Germany: Culture, Sexuality, and the Demands of Nature / Electrified Nerves, Degenerated Bodies: Medical Discourses on Neurasthenia in Germany, circa 1880-1914 / The Neurasthenic Experience in Imperial Germany: Expeditions into Patient Records and Side-looks upon General History / The Public's View of Neurasthenia in Germany: Looking for a New Rhythm of Life / Neurasthenia in the Netherlands / Neurasthenia as Pandora's Box? 'Zenuwachtigheid' and Dutch Psychiatry around 1900 / In Search of Dutch Neurasthenics from the 1880s to the early-1920s / A Harmless Disease: Children and Neurasthenia in the Netherlands / Neurasthenia and Manhood in fin-de-siècle France / Claire, Lise, Jean, Nadia, and Gisèle: Preliminary Notes towards a Characterisation of Pierre Janet's Psychasthenia / List of Illustrations / Index / Roy Porter and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra -- Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra -- Roy Porter -- Tom Lutz -- Mathew Thomson -- Chandak Sengoopta -- Hilary Marland -- Michael Neve -- Doris Kaufmann -- Volker Roelcke -- Joachim Radkau -- Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach -- Joost Vijselaar -- Jessica Slijkhuis -- Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra -- Nelleke Bakker -- Christopher E. Forth -- Sonu Shamdasani -- Roy Porter and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra -- Roy Porter and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra.
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Neurasthenia, meaning nerve weakness, was ‘invented’ in the United States as a disorder of modernity, caused by the fast pace of urban life. Soon after, from the early 1880s onwards, this modern disease crossed the Atlantic. Neurasthenia became much less ‘popular’ in Britain or the Netherlands than in Germany. Neurasthenia’s heyday continued into the first decade of the twentieth century. The label referred to conditions similar to those currently labelled as chronic fatigue syndrome. Why this rise and fall of neurasthenia, and why these differences in popularity? This book, which emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch-German conference held in June 2000, explores neurasthenia’s many-sided history from a comparative perspective.
9789004333406
10.1163/9789004333406 DOI
Beard, George M. 1839-1883.
Beard, George M. 1839-1883
1800-1999
Neurasthenia--History--19th century.
Neurasthenia--History--20th century.
Neurasthenia.
History.
RC552.N5 / C8 2001
616.89
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material / Introduction: Cultures of Neurasthenia from Beard to the First World War / Nervousness, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Style: From Luxury to Labour / Varieties of Medical Experience: Doctors and Patients, Psyche and Soma in America / Neurasthenia in Britain: An Overview / 'A Mob of Incoherent Symptoms'? Neurasthenia in British Medical Discourse, 1860-1920 / 'Uterine Mischief': W.S. Playfair and his Neurasthenic Patients / Public Views of Neurasthenia: Britain, 1880-1930 / Neurasthenia in Wilhelmine Germany: Culture, Sexuality, and the Demands of Nature / Electrified Nerves, Degenerated Bodies: Medical Discourses on Neurasthenia in Germany, circa 1880-1914 / The Neurasthenic Experience in Imperial Germany: Expeditions into Patient Records and Side-looks upon General History / The Public's View of Neurasthenia in Germany: Looking for a New Rhythm of Life / Neurasthenia in the Netherlands / Neurasthenia as Pandora's Box? 'Zenuwachtigheid' and Dutch Psychiatry around 1900 / In Search of Dutch Neurasthenics from the 1880s to the early-1920s / A Harmless Disease: Children and Neurasthenia in the Netherlands / Neurasthenia and Manhood in fin-de-siècle France / Claire, Lise, Jean, Nadia, and Gisèle: Preliminary Notes towards a Characterisation of Pierre Janet's Psychasthenia / List of Illustrations / Index / Roy Porter and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra -- Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra -- Roy Porter -- Tom Lutz -- Mathew Thomson -- Chandak Sengoopta -- Hilary Marland -- Michael Neve -- Doris Kaufmann -- Volker Roelcke -- Joachim Radkau -- Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach -- Joost Vijselaar -- Jessica Slijkhuis -- Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra -- Nelleke Bakker -- Christopher E. Forth -- Sonu Shamdasani -- Roy Porter and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra -- Roy Porter and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Neurasthenia, meaning nerve weakness, was ‘invented’ in the United States as a disorder of modernity, caused by the fast pace of urban life. Soon after, from the early 1880s onwards, this modern disease crossed the Atlantic. Neurasthenia became much less ‘popular’ in Britain or the Netherlands than in Germany. Neurasthenia’s heyday continued into the first decade of the twentieth century. The label referred to conditions similar to those currently labelled as chronic fatigue syndrome. Why this rise and fall of neurasthenia, and why these differences in popularity? This book, which emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch-German conference held in June 2000, explores neurasthenia’s many-sided history from a comparative perspective.
9789004333406
10.1163/9789004333406 DOI
Beard, George M. 1839-1883.
Beard, George M. 1839-1883
1800-1999
Neurasthenia--History--19th century.
Neurasthenia--History--20th century.
Neurasthenia.
History.
RC552.N5 / C8 2001
616.89