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Neurasthenic nation : America's search for health, happiness, and comfort, 1869-1920 David G. Schuster
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks RC 552 .N5 S38 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schuster, David G., 1969-
- Series:
- Critical issues in health and medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neurasthenia--United States--History--19th century.
- Neurasthenia.
- Neurasthenia--United States--History--20th century.
- Americans--Health and hygiene--History--19th century.
- Americans.
- Americans--Health and hygiene--History--20th century.
- Industrial revolution--Health aspects--United States.
- Industrial revolution.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 203 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.
- Contents:
- Professional medicine and the discovery of neurasthenia
- The popular diagnosis
- The search of inspiration
- Neurasthenia, health, and gender
- Lifestyle and managing the healthy balance
- The decline of neurasthenia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Credit Line: Sarah Butler Wister, 1907. Historical Society of Pennsylvania Portrait Collection [V88], p.101.
- HSP copy inscribed to the Society by author.
- ISBN:
- 9780813551319 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813551315 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 694600448
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