Cultures Of Neurasthenia

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004333401
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Neurasthenia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Tsung-yi Lin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neurasthenia in Asian Cultures written by Tsung-yi Lin and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald McLawhorn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000371999
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( 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.

Author : David G. Schuster
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ISBN 13 : 9780813551319
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( 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.

Author : Katherine Elmire Williams
Publisher : Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for
ISBN 13 : 9780937031254
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women on the Verge written by Katherine Elmire Williams and published by Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for. This book was released on 2004 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books essays explore the phenomenon of neurasthenia, a "nervous" illness that reached epidemic proportions during the last two decades of the 19th century. The relationship between paintings by notable artists as Thomas Eakins, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, and Edmund Tarbell and a large body of literature, both literary and scientific, is examined, as is the relationship between the "high art" of the painting and manifestations of this illness in advertising and popular art.

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Download or read book Neurasthenia & the Culture of Nervous Exhaustion written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhibit details the history, diagnosis, treatment and legacy of neurasthenia (also called nervous exhaustion).

Author : Susan E. Abbey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9 pages
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Download or read book Neurasthenia and chronic fatigue syndrome written by Susan E. Abbey and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Kleinman
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ISBN 13 : 9780300041330
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Origins of Distress and Disease written by Arthur Kleinman and published by . This book was released on 1988-07-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vincent Yuan-Cheng Ho
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book Neurasthenia in Post-liberation China written by Vincent Yuan-Cheng Ho and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Lutz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
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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