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Berlin electropolis : shock, nerves, and German modernity / Andreas Killen

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Killen, Andreas
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 volume).
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Language Note
English.
Contents
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.
Summary
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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ISBN
9780520931633 (electronic bk.)
0520931637 (electronic bk.)
1423727614 (electronic bk.)
9781423727613 (electronic bk.)
1598757814
9781598757811
9780520243620
0520243625
1282759329
9781282759329
9786612759321
6612759321
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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