Berlin electropolis : shock, nerves, and German modernity /

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.

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Killen, Andreas
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
سلاسل:Weimar and now ; 38.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=140647
جدول المحتويات:
  • 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.