Title Berlin electropolis : shock, nerves, and German modernity / Andreas Killen.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
	©2006

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Description	1 online resource (1 volume).
	German language
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Weimar and now ; 38
	Weimar and now ; 38.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	Focusing on the key groups of railway personnel, soldiers, & telephone operators, Killen traces the emergence in the 1880s & then later decline of the belief that modernity caused nervous illness.
Contents	1. Berlin electropolis -- 2. Electrotherapy and the nervous self in nineteenth-century Germany -- 3. Railway accidents, social insurance, and the pathogenesis of mass nervousness, 1889-1914 -- 4. Electrotherapy and the nervous self during wartime -- 5. Psychiatrists, telephone operators, and traumatic neurosis, 1900-1926.
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Subject	Neurasthenia -- Social aspects -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.
	Neurasthenia -- Social aspects.
	Germany -- Berlin.
	History.
	Neurasthenia.
	Mental fatigue -- Social aspects -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.
	Mental fatigue.
	Social aspects.
	Electrotherapeutics -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.
	Electrotherapeutics.
	Electrification -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.
	Electrification.
	Industrialization -- Germany -- Berlin -- Psychological aspects.
	Industrialization.
	Psychological aspects.
	Social change -- Germany -- Berlin -- Psychological aspects.
	Social change.
	Railroads -- Employees -- Mental health -- Germany -- Berlin.
	Railroads -- Employees.
	Mental health.
	Telephone operators -- Mental health -- Germany -- Berlin.
	Telephone operators.
	Soldiers -- Mental health -- Germany -- Berlin.
	Soldiers -- Mental health.
	Soldiers.
	Psychiatry -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.
	Psychiatry.
	Neurasthenia -- therapy.
	Neurasthenia -- history.
	Social Change -- history.
	Psychiatry -- history.
	Mental Fatigue -- history.
	Industry.
	Workforce.
	History, 20th Century.
	History, 19th Century.
	Electroconvulsive Therapy -- history.
	Anxiety -- history.
	Germany.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Killen, Andreas. Berlin electropolis. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006 0520243625 (DLC) 2005005216 (OCoLC)57750938
ISBN	9780520931633 (electronic book)
	0520931637 (electronic book)
	1423727614 (electronic book)
	9781423727613 (electronic book)
	1598757814
	9781598757811
	9780520243620
	0520243625

Title Berlin electropolis : shock, nerves, and German modernity / Andreas Killen.

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