Neurasthenic Nation

Author: David G. Schuster
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0813551315
Category: Medical

Neurasthenic Nation: America's Search for Health, Happiness, and Comfort, 1869-1920 (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

As the United States rushed toward industrial and technological modernization in the late nineteenth century, people worried that the workplace had become too competitive, the economy too turbulent, domestic chores too taxing, while new machines had created a fast-paced environment that sickened the nation. Download Neurasthenic Nation medical books for free.
Physicians testified that, without a doubt, modern civilization was causing a host of ills-everything from irritability to insomnia, lethargy to weight loss, anxiety to lack of ambition, and indigestion to impotence. They called this condition neurasthenia.Neurasthenic Nation investigates how the concept of neurasthenia helped doctors and patients, men and women, and advertisers and consumers negotiate changes commonly assoc Get Neurasthenic Nation our bestseller medical books.

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Physicians testified that, without a doubt, modern civilization was causing a host of ills-everything from irritability to insomnia, lethargy to weight loss, anxiety to lack of ambition, and indigestion to impotence Neurasthenic Nation investigates how the concept of neurasthenia helped doctors and patients, men and women, and advertisers and consumers negotiate changes commonly assoc

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