Cultures of neurasthenia from Beard to the First World War / / edited by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Roy Porter.

• Superior document: Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine
• TeilnehmendeR: Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke,; Porter, Roy,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (iv, 407 pages) :; illustrations.

Neurasthenia, meaning nerve weakness, was ‘invented’ in the United States as a disorder of modernity, caused by the fast pace of urban life. Soon after, from the early 1880s onwards, this modern disease crossed the Atlantic. Neurasthenia became much less ‘popular’ in Britain or the Netherlands than...