""Berlin Electropolis" is the first English-language history of neurasthenia or of nerves in the German context. However, the author does more than just narrate the history of this central, yet puzzling malady; he discusses the construction, maintenance, and ultimate unraveling of a cultural assumption, by which modernity and progress were seen as creating nervous pathology. Killen introduces readers to a great deal of fascinating material and forges new connections between science, culture and society."--Paul Lerner, ...
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""Berlin Electropolis" is the first English-language history of neurasthenia or of nerves in the German context. However, the author does more than just narrate the history of this central, yet puzzling malady; he discusses the construction, maintenance, and ultimate unraveling of a cultural assumption, by which modernity and progress were seen as creating nervous pathology. Killen introduces readers to a great deal of fascinating material and forges new connections between science, culture and society."--Paul Lerner, author of "Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930"
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As New in As New jacket. This is an account of the rise and fall of various psychiatric diagnoses, treatments, and disputes, and their relation to the changing moral and cultural economy of electricity, both in the clinic and the German metropolis; it describes how nervous disorders characteristic of the late 19th century were transformed by the advent of the German welfare state and the mystique of electricity into traumatic disorders that threatened the solvency of the Weimar economy (light gray cloth with orange lettering; light gray pictorial dust jacket with orange & black lettering; a bright clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore)
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New. Print on demand Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 308 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 38.
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