Neurosis and modernity : the age of nervousness in Sweden / by Petteri Pietikainen.

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Pietikäinen, Petteri

Material type: Text

TextSeries: History of science and medicine library ; v. 2.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 391 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789047421245
9047421248

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Neurosis and modernity.DDC classification:

362.196/8009485 22

LOC classification:

RC530 .P54 2007eb

NLM classification:

WM 11 GS8
2008 B-223

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44.16

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Contents:

Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Age of Nervousness; The Triumph of the Therapeutic; Neurosis as a Contagious Diagnosis; The Specifically Swedish Experience of Neurosis; Ideas of Madness: On the Intellectual History of Psychiatry; On the Study of Neurosis; The Structure of the Book; PART I MEDICALISED MODERNITY; Chapter One On the Swedish Path to Modernity; Chapter Two How Swedes Became Nervous; Chapter Three Weak Nerves, Degeneration and Racial Hygiene: Health Ideology in the Age of Nervousness.

Summary: In late 19th-century Sweden, paths to modernity created socio-cultural conditions conducive to the dissemination of the language of nerves. This book shows how neurosis became an extremely contagious diagnosis, and how our modern language of discontent, stress and malaise has a history that goes back to the birth of modern neuroses in the 1880s.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-381) and index.

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In late 19th-century Sweden, paths to modernity created socio-cultural conditions conducive to the dissemination of the language of nerves. This book shows how neurosis became an extremely contagious diagnosis, and how our modern language of discontent, stress and malaise has a history that goes back to the birth of modern neuroses in the 1880s.

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