Neurasthenic Nation : : America's Search for Health, Happiness, and Comfort, 1869-1920 / / David G Schuster.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 14 illustrations and figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Professional Medicine and the Discovery of Neurasthenia
- Chapter 2. The Popular Diagnosis
- Chapter 3. The Search for Inspiration: Neurasthenia and Therapeutic Spirituality
- Chapter 4. Neurasthenia, Health, and Gender
- Chapter 5. Lifestyle and Managing the Healthy Balance
- Chapter 6. The Decline of Neurasthenia
- Epilogue: Neurasthenia's Legacy
- Notes
- Index