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Cultures of Neurasthenia: From Beard to the First World War (Clio Medica 63) (Clio Medica) (Clio Medica/Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine)
Cultures of Neurasthenia From Beard to the First World War - Clio Medica 63 - Clio Medica - Clio Medica/Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine
Author: Roy Porter, Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
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 continue...  more »
ISBN-13: 9789042009219
ISBN-10: 9042009217
Publication Date: 1/1/2001
Pages: 407
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Publisher: Rodopi Bv Editions
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