UID:
almahu_9949701603002882
Umfang:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047421245
Serie:
Brill eBook titles 2007
Inhalt:
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 goes back to the birth of modern neuroses in the 1880s. Hysteria, neurasthenia, psychoneurosis and other neuroses spread from middle-class women to all segments of the Swedish population, and by the mid-1950s nobody was safe from the medico-cultural virus of neurosis. While offering the first historical analysis of the ways in which neuroses became a national malady in Sweden, this book illustrates and analyses general aspects of social and cultural history during the Age of Nervousness.
Anmerkung:
Preliminary material /
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Introduction - The age of nervousness /
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Chapter One. On the swedish path to modernity /
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Chapter Two. How Swedes became nervous /
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Chapter Three. Weak nerves, degeneration and racial hygiene: Health ideology in the age of nervousness /
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Chapter Four. Masters of psychomedical reality: Neurosis and the medical profession /
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Chapter Five. Feminity, sexuality and childhood: Sources of the nervous self /
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Chapter Six. Remedies for nervousness /
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Chapter Seven. The culture of complexes /
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Chapter Eight. On the shattered nerves of Dr Lennmalm's private patients /
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Chapter Nine. Nervousness with tears: Patients at the 'nerve clinic' /
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Chapter Ten. How to turn neurotics into productive citizens /
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Conclusion - Neurosis as a contagious diagnosis /
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Bibliography /
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Index /
Weitere Ausg.:
Neurosis and modernity ISBN 9789004160750 (alk. paper)
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9004160752 (alk. paper)
Sprache:
Englisch
