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.

Bibliografiska uppgifter
Huvudupphovsman: Killen, Andreas
Materialtyp: Licensed eBooks
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Serie:Weimar and now ; 38.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • 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.