Neurosis and modernity : the age of nervousness in Sweden /

In late 19th-century Sweden, paths to modernity created socio-cultural conditions conducive to the dissemination of the language of nerves. This book shows how neurosis became an extremely contagious diagnosis, and how our modern language of discontent, stress and malaise has a history that goes bac...

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Main Author: Pietikäinen, Petteri
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007
Series:History of science and medicine library ; v. 2.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central