Neurosis and modernity : the age of nervousness in Sweden / / by Petteri Pietikainen.
In late nineteenth-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 go...
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Superior document: | History of science and medicine library, v. 2 |
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Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | History of science and medicine library ;
v. 2. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (405 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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