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Hysterical Men - 9780801440946

Un libro in lingua di Paul Lerner edito da Cornell Univ Pr, 2003

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Before World War I, symptoms of "hysteria" had generally been thought to be confined to women, but with the advent of war, symptoms of shell-shock, showing up in epidemic proportions among German soldiers, began to be labeled as "hysteria" by the German medical establishment. Lerner (history, U. of Southern California) examines the response of the German medical establishment, arguing that new directions in psychiatric diagnosis intersected with ideas of social insurance in the context of the path to modernity. Hysteria began to take on class-based associations of work aversion in addition to its traditional gender dimensions. Ultimately, suggests Lerner, psychiatric theory came to complement other ideological strains of modernity that idealized war as a "transcendent and invigorating experience." and came to condemn the Weimar welfare state. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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