10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NEURASTHENIA»
Discover the use of
neurasthenia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
neurasthenia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Cultures of
Neurasthenia from Beard to the First World War
This text contains 16 papers from a conference held in June 2000 in Amsterdam, to analyze and compare the history of neurasthenia in Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Roy Porter, 2001
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
3
A Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion (
Neurasthenia) ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
George Miller Beard, 2012
4
Epilepsy Hysteria and
Neurasthenia
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
5
Clinical Lectures on
Neurasthenia
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
Thomas Dixon Savill, 2007
6
The Blues (Splanchnic
Neurasthenia) Causes and Cure
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
7
Neurasthenia and Its Mental Symptoms
The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com).
8
Women on the Verge: The Culture of
Neurasthenia in ...
The books essays explore the phenomenon of neurasthenia, a "nervous" illness that reached epidemic proportions during the last two decades of the 19th century.
Katherine Elmire Williams, 2004
9
Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870
72 women drifted back and forth into neurasthenia. Neurasthenia, a newly
fashionable disease in the 1 880s, incorporated the romantic and psychic
aspects formerly associated with consumption." The psychological attributes of
consumption, ...
10
Adventures in
Neurasthenia: Let Me Feel Your Pulse
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NEURASTHENIA»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
neurasthenia is used in the context of the following news items.
Chronic fatigue syndrome: The male disorder that became a female …
The diagnosis of neurasthenia, which has a male connotation, was changed to the ME diagnosis, which has a female connotation," explains ... «ProHealth, Jul 15»
The age of unreason
Neurasthenia disappeared from the psychiatrist's lexicon in 20th-century America but enjoyed a long afterlife in China; Chairman Mao himself ... «The Economist, Jul 15»
Wind farm syndrome and other imaginary ailments
Florence Nightingale had it when it was called neurasthenia. Chronic fatigue syndrome is similar and more recently sufferers have claimed they ... «Cosmos, Jul 15»
Why we should still be reading Democracy in America #July4th …
... especially when the poor grow uppity, the middle class might well display symptoms of what might be called political neurasthenia: lassitude, ... «North Denver News, Jul 15»
Robert Graves Found 'Perfect Tranquillity' in Majorca
... tears and constant twitching caused by what was then known as neurasthenia, or shell shock, he decided to leave England for good. «New York Times, Jul 15»
Sex and the Rest Cure in Gilded Age America: Re-imagining The …
Her dissertation, Sexual dysfunction as 'the national disease of America:' neurasthenia and the medical approaches to men's sexual and reproductive health, ... «University of Florida, Jul 15»
Solo Perduta Abbandonata!
A child soon followed and the young mother suffered a bout of what was then called 'neurasthenia, nervousness, or hysteria' (today, we would ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
Anyone for tennis?
Doherty died of heart failure and neurasthenia on 29 December 1910 at the age of only 38 at his home in Kensington. image According to his ... «East Grinstead Online, Jul 15»
Night at the End of the Tunnel
Longing for more of a home than a series of hotel rooms and a summer beach cottage, she sinks into “neurasthenia” (a catch-all early 20th ... «A News Cafe, Jul 15»
Not quite the good doctor — The death of Claude Tozer
She was, according to contemporary reports, suffering from neurasthenia. Tozer met Mrs Mort in the drawing room as Miss Fizelle left them. «Cricket Country, Jul 15»
