Naujausi A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Z
Autoriai: EDITED BY MARIJKE GIJSWIJT-HOFSTRA AND ROY PORTER
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ISBN: 90-420-0921-7
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075227228
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Anotacija:
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 manysided history from a comparative perspective.
i Notes on contributors
1 Introduction: Cultures of Neurasthenia from Beard to the
First World War
Marijke Gijswijt-Hofitm
1. 31 Nervousness, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Style:
From Luxury to Labour
Roy Porter
2. 51 Varieties of Medical Experience: Doctors and Patients,
Psyche and Soma in America
Tom Lutz
3. 77 Neurasthenia in Britain: An Overview
Mathew Thomson
4. 97 'A Mob of Incoherent Symptoms'? Neurasthenia in British
Medical Discourse, 1860-1920
Chandak Sengoopta
5. 117 'Uterine Mischief: W.S. Playfair and his Neurasthenic Patients
Hilary Marland
6. 141 Public Views of Neurasthenia: Britain, 1880-1930
Michael Neve
7. 161 Neurasthenia in Wilhelmine Germany: Culture, Sexuality,
and the Demands of Nature
Doris Kaufinann
8. 177 Electrified Nerves, Degenerated Bodies: Medical
Discourses on Neurasthenia in Germany, circa 1880-1914
Volker Roelcke
9. 199 The Neurasthenic Experience in Imperial Germany:
Expeditions into Patient Records and Side-looks upon
General History
Joachim Radkau
10. 219 The Public's View of Neurasthenia in Germany: Looking for a New Rhythm of Life
Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach
11. 239 Neurasthenia in the Netherlands
Joost Vijselaar
12. 257 Neurasthenia as Pandoras Box?
'Zenuwachtigheid' and Dutch Psychiatry around 1900
Jessica Slijkhuis
13. 279 In Search of Dutch Neurasthenics from the 1880s
to the early-1920s
Marijke Gijswijt-Hofitra
14. 309 A Harmless Disease: Children and Neurasthenia in the Netherlands
Nelleke Bakker
15. 329 Neurasthenia and Manhood in fin-de-siecle France
Christopher E. Forth
16. 363 Claire, Lise, Jean, Nadia, and Gisele:
Preliminary Notes towards a Characterisation
of Pierre Janet s Psychasthenia Sonu Shamdasani
387 List of Illustrations
389 Index
