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Neurasthenic Nation

Author : David G. Schuster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813551319
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Neurasthenic Nation written by David G. Schuster and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States rushed toward industrial and technological modernization in the late nineteenth century, people worried that the workplace had become too competitive, the economy too turbulent, domestic chores too taxing, while new machines had created a fast-paced environment that sickened the nation. Physicians testified that, without a doubt, modern civilization was causing a host of ills—everything from irritability to insomnia, lethargy to weight loss, anxiety to lack of ambition, and indigestion to impotence. They called this condition neurasthenia. Neurasthenic Nation investigates how the concept of neurasthenia helped doctors and patients, men and women, and advertisers and consumers negotiate changes commonly associated with “modernity.” Combining a survey of medical and popular literature on neurasthenia with original research into rare archives of personal letters, patient records, and corporate files, David Schuster charts the emergence of a “neurasthenic nation”—a place where people saw their personal health as inextricably tied to the pitfalls and possibilities of a changing world.

Neurasthenic Nation

Author : David G. Schuster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780542929649
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Neurasthenic Nation written by David G. Schuster and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation proposes a metaphor for the years 1869 to 1930 drawn from medicine and unique to the period itself. This metaphor is the disease neurasthenia, a nervous condition affecting the mind and body that was thought to be unique to modern societies. Whereas past studies of neurasthenia have typically relied upon medical articles or literary accounts to understand the disease, this dissertation adds to the analysis patent medicine advertisements, newspapers stories, archived correspondence between physicians and patients, the work of progressive reformers, and archived clinical patient records. By situating neurasthenia at the intersection of private and public life in American society, this dissertation seeks to show how neurasthenia went from being a medical condition defined and diagnosed by professional physicians to being a popularized condition defined and diagnosed by advertisers, journalists, teachers, faith healers, managers, and, importantly, patients themselves. Once popularized, neurasthenia helped create conversations, both public and private, that went beyond narrowly defined medical issues to help people negotiate changes commonly associated with "modernity," including urbanization, the growth of white-collar jobs, professionalization, the rise of the leisure industry, therapeutic religious movements, the commercialization of popular culture, the reevaluation of gender roles, and mass public education. Ultimately, this dissertation seeks to define the United States, as it emerged from the nineteenth century, as a "Neurasthenic Nation," a place where people saw their personal health inextricably linked to the pitfalls and possibilities of the changing world around them.

The Nation's Health

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nation's Health written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nation's Health

Author : Charles-Edward Amory Winslow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Nation's Health written by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cultures of Neurasthenia from Beard to the First World War

Author : Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042009219
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Neurasthenia from Beard to the First World War written by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neurasthenia, or "nerve weakness," was originally identified in the U.S. in the late-19th century as an urban disease, similar to today's chronic fatigue syndrome. Neurasthenia maintained popularity through the first decade of the 20th century. This text contains 16 papers from a conference held in June 2000 in Amsterdam, to analyze and compare the history of neurasthenia in Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands. Developments in America and France are also given attention, as well as nervous disorders in Britain prior to the coming of neurasthenia. The authors consider the rise and fall of neurasthenia, variations in its popularity among countries, and the professional, patient, and public views of the disorder.

The Sensitives

Author : Oliver Broudy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982128526
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Sensitives written by Oliver Broudy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over fifty million Americans endure a mysterious environmental illness that renders them allergic to chemicals. Innocuous staples from deodorant to garbage bags wreak havoc on sensitives. No one is born with EI; it often starts with a single toxic exposure. Symptoms include extreme fatigue, brain fog, muscle aches, inability to tolerate certain foods. Broudy investigates this disease, and delves into the intricate, ardent subculture that surrounds it--Adapted from jacket

The Nation

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Nervousness, 1903

Author : Tom Lutz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Nervousness, 1903 written by Tom Lutz and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paper edition of a 1991 study. The subject is "a cultural complex--a disease called neurasthenia" (from the preface), examined at a specific historical "moment"--1903. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Sexual Dysfunction as "the National Disease of America"

Author : Mallory Renee Szymanski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Dysfunction as "the National Disease of America" written by Mallory Renee Szymanski and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894, McClure's magazine declared neurasthenia "the national disease of America." In the late-nineteenth century, white neurasthenic men, across classes, shared a collective experience of fatigue and sexual anxiety that threatened their gendered self-perceptions. They learned to identify themselves as neurasthenic from ubiquitous cultural information available in newspapers, advertisements, the YMCA, and lay medical literature. Neurasthenia rhetoric defined manhood in terms of potential, it provided a framework for absolution of past moral failures (such as illicit sex or alcohol use), and it affirmed whiteness as a permanent marker of biological superiority that could not be dismantled at the sign of neurasthenic breakdown. Blending cultural and medical history methods, this project argues neurasthenia rhetoric normalized manly weakness as an unfortunate, yet legitimate experience for the most hardworking and civilized men. In other words, it circumscribed racialized and classed boundaries to include white men, however broken, sexually challenged, or emotionally fraught. Patients and doctors utilized this language in the clinic, and as a result, they legitimized otherwise illicit questions about what it meant to be a healthy, empowered, modern white man in an everchanging modern world.

Preventing Mental Illness

Author : Despo Kritsotaki
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319986996
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Preventing Mental Illness written by Despo Kritsotaki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection illustrate how researchers, clinicians and policy makers drew inspiration from divergent fields of knowledge and practice: from eugenics, genetics and medication to mental hygiene, child guidance, social welfare, public health and education; from risk management to radical and social psychiatry, architectural design and environmental psychology. It highlights the shifting patterns of biological, social and psychodynamic models, while adopting a gender perspective and considering professional developments as well as changing social and legal contexts, including deinstitutionalisation and social movements. Through vigorous research, the contributors demonstrate that preventive approaches to mental health have a long history, and point to the conclusion that it might well be possible to learn from such historical attempts. The book also explores which of these approaches are worth considering in future and which are best confined to the past. Within this context, the book aims at stoking and informing debate and conversation about how to prevent mental illness and improve mental health in the years to come. Chapters 3, 10, and 12 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

The Neurasthenia-Depression Controversy

Author : Donald McLawhorn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000371999
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Neurasthenia-Depression Controversy written by Donald McLawhorn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the largest debate that has occurred in the field of cultural psychiatry and its impact on diagnosing, theorizing, and clinical practice. It is also about the role of culture in psychopathology specifically in relation to China. This book is the first comprehensive and critical assessment of the anthropological psychiatry that has provided Western physicians with their ideas about somatization and culture. It is argued that psychiatric nosology and the broader cultural milieu interact in a fascinating way and co-facilitate individual conformity to culturally salient categories, consciously or unconsciously, through a process of belief, expectation, and learning. The result is that codified experiences can be translated from the mind to the body and back again. Through a critical evaluation of the Neurasthenia-Depression controversy, we can gain a view of the contested and shifting nature of psychiatric nosology, and thereby attempt to introduce the beginnings of a model that elucidates how psychiatric distress varies across cultures. This timely book challenges conventional wisdom about neurasthenia and depression in Chinese societies. Its findings will be of value to anyone who works with Chinese people with these mental illnesses across the global diaspora.

Sexual Neurasthenia (nervous Exhaustion)

Author : George Miller Beard
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781018692999
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Neurasthenia (nervous Exhaustion) written by George Miller Beard and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A Weary Road

Author : Mark Osborne Humphries
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442661410
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book A Weary Road written by Mark Osborne Humphries and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Despite significant interest from historians, we still know relatively little about how it was experienced, diagnosed, treated, and managed in the frontline trenches in the Canadian and British forces. How did soldiers relate to suffering comrades? Did large numbers of shell shock cases affect the outcome of important battles? Was frontline psychiatric treatment as effective as many experts claimed after the war? Were Canadians treated any differently than other Commonwealth soldiers? A Weary Road is the first comprehensive study to address these important questions. Author Mark Osborne Humphries uses research from Canadian, British, and Australian archives, including hundreds of newly available hospital records and patient medical files, to provide a history of war trauma as it was experienced, treated, and managed by ordinary soldiers.

The End of Burnout

Author : Jonathan Malesic
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520975340
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The End of Burnout written by Jonathan Malesic and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing. Burnout has become our go-to term for talking about the pressure and dissatisfaction we experience at work. But in the absence of understanding what burnout means, the discourse often does little to help workers who suffer from exhaustion and despair. Jonathan Malesic was a burned out worker who escaped by quitting his job as a tenured professor. In The End of Burnout, he dives into the history and psychology of burnout, traces the origin of the high ideals we bring to our jobs, and profiles the individuals and communities who are already resisting our cultural commitment to constant work. In The End of Burnout, Malesic traces his own history as someone who burned out of a tenured job to frame this rigorous investigation of how and why so many of us feel worn out, alienated, and useless in our work. Through research on the science, culture, and philosophy of burnout, Malesic explores the gap between our vocation and our jobs, and between the ideals we have for work and the reality of what we have to do. He eschews the usual prevailing wisdom in confronting burnout (“Learn to say no!” “Practice mindfulness!”) to examine how our jobs have been constructed as a symbol of our value and our total identity. Beyond looking at what drives burnout—unfairness, a lack of autonomy, a breakdown of community, mismatches of values—this book spotlights groups that are addressing these failures of ethics. We can look to communities of monks, employees of a Dallas nonprofit, intense hobbyists, and artists with disabilities to see the possibilities for resisting a “total work” environment and the paths to recognizing the dignity of workers and nonworkers alike. In this critical yet deeply humane book, Malesic offers the vocabulary we need to recognize burnout, overcome burnout culture, and acknowledge the dignity of workers and nonworkers alike.

Frederick Novy and the Development of Bacteriology in Medicine

Author : Powel Harold Kazanjian
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813585104
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Frederick Novy and the Development of Bacteriology in Medicine written by Powel Harold Kazanjian and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, Frederick Novy was the leader among a new breed of full-time bacteriologists at American medical schools. Although historians have examined bacteriologic work done in American health department laboratories, there has been little examination of similar work completed within U.S. medical schools during this period. In Frederick Novy and the Development of Bacteriology in Medicine, medical historian, medical researcher, and clinician Powel H. Kazanjian uses Novy’s archived letters, laboratory notebooks, lecture notes, and published works to examine medical research and educational activities at the University of Michigan and other key medical schools during a formative period in modern medical science.

Sick and Tired

Author : Emily K. Abel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469661799
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Sick and Tired written by Emily K. Abel and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine finally has discovered fatigue. Recent articles about various diseases conclude that fatigue has been underrecognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have also ignored the phenomenon. As a result, we know little about what it means to live with this condition, especially given its diverse symptoms and causes. Emily K. Abel offers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by her own experiences as a cancer survivor. Abel reveals how the limits of medicine and the American cultural emphasis on productivity intersect to stigmatize those with fatigue. Without an agreed-upon approach to confirm the problem through medical diagnosis, it is difficult to convince others that it is real. When fatigue limits our ability to work, our society sees us as burdens or worse. With her engaging and informative style, Abel gives us a synthetic history of fatigue and elucidates how it has been ignored or misunderstood, not only by medical professionals but also by American society as a whole.

One Nation Under Stress

Author : Dana Becker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199971781
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book One Nation Under Stress written by Dana Becker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stress. Everyone is talking about it, suffering from it, trying desperately to manage it-now more than ever. From 1970 to 1980, 2,326 academic articles appeared with the word "stress" in the title. In the decade between 2000 and 2010 that number jumped to 21,750. Has life become ten times more stressful, or is it the stress concept itself that has grown exponentially over the past 40 years? In One Nation Under Stress, Dana Becker argues that our national infatuation with the therapeutic culture has created a middle-class moral imperative to manage the tensions of daily life by turning inward, ignoring the social and political realities that underlie those tensions. Becker shows that although stress is often associated with conditions over which people have little control-workplace policies unfavorable to family life, increasing economic inequality, war in the age of terrorism-the stress concept focuses most of our attention on how individuals react to stress. A proliferation of self-help books and dire medical warnings about the negative effects of stress on our physical and emotional health all place the responsibility for alleviating stress-though yoga, deep breathing, better diet, etc.-squarely on the individual. The stress concept has come of age in a period of tectonic social and political shifts. Nevertheless, we persist in the all-American belief that we can meet these changes by re-engineering ourselves rather than tackling the root causes of stress. Examining both research and popular representations of stress in cultural terms, Becker traces the evolution of the social uses of the stress concept as it has been transformed into an all-purpose vehicle for defining, expressing, and containing middle-class anxieties about upheavals in American society.