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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.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.