Add to ORKGA prominent feature of the postbellum, industrialized landscape in America was a preoccupation with a protean illness that sapped the vitality of otherwise healthilyconstituted people. Termed neurasthenia, and otherwise known as the disease of civilization, the sociomedical discourse that formed around it became the cultural idiom through which a variety of elites, nonspecialists, and medical professionals negotiated their way through a changing social order. Yet social and cultural conflict was also ingrained in this discourse and the optimistic healing narrative that accompanied it. This becomes evident by analyzing the critical writings of William James and Josiah Royce, two Harvard philosophers, public intellectuals, and well-respected ...
The causes of mental illness and their types are widely covered, and some mentally ill patients have...
This is the final version. Available from Palgrave MacMillan via the DOI in this record. Wellcome Tr...
textRituals of Diagnosis argues that nineteenth-century America’s literary representations of madnes...
A prominent feature of the postbellum, industrialized landscape in America was a preoccupation with ...
A contemporary observer of the American medical and cultural landscape during the final decade of th...
The incipient therapeutic movements of the late-Victorian and Progressive eras in the US are salient...
This paper follows the discourse of nervous diseases in America as it was articulated and conteste...
The National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine site has plumbed the various corners of Ameri...
This paper is the last one in this short project, an addition to An Unusual Power, and looks at how ...
Mental Ills and Bodily Cures depicts a time when psychiatric medicine went to lengths we now find ex...
The American physician, William James (1842-1910), a published philosopher and psychologist, will pe...
© 2002 Dr. Ann WestmorePsychiatry developed from the practices of nineteenth century medical practit...
Only a century ago, the discipline of psychiatry had little in the way of a biomedical understanding...
From the colonial era to the twentieth century American Protestants professed to care for the well-b...
When pyromania from 1840-1890 is reviewed, it stands out as a concept that at first found favor in...
The causes of mental illness and their types are widely covered, and some mentally ill patients have...
This is the final version. Available from Palgrave MacMillan via the DOI in this record. Wellcome Tr...
textRituals of Diagnosis argues that nineteenth-century America’s literary representations of madnes...
A prominent feature of the postbellum, industrialized landscape in America was a preoccupation with ...
A contemporary observer of the American medical and cultural landscape during the final decade of th...
The incipient therapeutic movements of the late-Victorian and Progressive eras in the US are salient...
This paper follows the discourse of nervous diseases in America as it was articulated and conteste...
The National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine site has plumbed the various corners of Ameri...
This paper is the last one in this short project, an addition to An Unusual Power, and looks at how ...
Mental Ills and Bodily Cures depicts a time when psychiatric medicine went to lengths we now find ex...
The American physician, William James (1842-1910), a published philosopher and psychologist, will pe...
© 2002 Dr. Ann WestmorePsychiatry developed from the practices of nineteenth century medical practit...
Only a century ago, the discipline of psychiatry had little in the way of a biomedical understanding...
From the colonial era to the twentieth century American Protestants professed to care for the well-b...
When pyromania from 1840-1890 is reviewed, it stands out as a concept that at first found favor in...
The causes of mental illness and their types are widely covered, and some mentally ill patients have...
This is the final version. Available from Palgrave MacMillan via the DOI in this record. Wellcome Tr...
textRituals of Diagnosis argues that nineteenth-century America’s literary representations of madnes...