Neurasthenic Nation : America's Search for Health, Happiness, and Comfort, 1869-1920 / David G. Schuster.

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Schuster, David G, 1969-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Critical issues in health and medicinePublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813552224
0813552222

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Neurasthenic Nation : America's Search for Health, Happiness, and Comfort, 1869-1920.DDC classification:

362.196/852800973 22

LOC classification:

RC552.N5 S38 2011eb

NLM classification:

2011 J-802
WM 11 AA1

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Contents:

Professional medicine and the discovery of neurasthenia -- The popular diagnosis -- The search for inspiration: neurasthenia and therapeutic spirituality -- Neurasthenia, health and gender -- Lifestyle and managing the healthy balance -- The decline of neurasthenia.

Summary: Neurasthenic Nation investigates how the concept of neurasthenia, the ill effects of modern civilization such as insomnia or impotence, 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 ...

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Neurasthenic Nation investigates how the concept of neurasthenia, the ill effects of modern civilization such as insomnia or impotence, 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 ...