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Author Schuster, David G., 1969-

Title Neurasthenic nation : America's search for health, happiness, and comfort, 1869-1920 / David G. Schuster.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Critical issues in health and medicine
Critical issues in health and medicine.
Contents Professional medicine and the discovery of neurasthenia -- The popular diagnosis -- The search for inspiration: neurasthenia and therapeutic spirituality -- Neurasthenia, health and gender -- Lifestyle and managing the healthy balance -- The decline of neurasthenia.
Summary Neurasthenic Nation investigates how the concept of neurasthenia, the ill effects of modern civilization such as insomnia or impotence, helped doctors and patients, men and women, and advertisers and consumers negotiate changes commonly associated with modernity; Combining a survey of medical and popular literature on neurasthenia with original research into rare archives of personal letters, patient records, and corporate files, David Schuster charts the emergence of a neurasthenic nation; a place where people saw their personal health as inextricably tied to ...
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Neurasthenia -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Neurasthenia.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Neurasthenia -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Americans -- Health and hygiene -- History -- 19th century.
Americans -- Health and hygiene.
Americans.
Americans -- Health and hygiene -- History -- 20th century.
Industrial revolution -- Health aspects -- United States.
Industrial revolution.
Health.
Health.
Social sciences.
Social sciences.
Medicine.
Medicine.
Neurasthenia -- history.
History, 20th Century.
History, 19th Century.
United States.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Schuster, David. Neurasthenic Nation : America's Search for Health, Happiness, and Comfort, 1869-1920. Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, ©2011 9780813551319
ISBN 9780813552224 (electronic book)
0813552222 (electronic book)
0813551315
9780813551319