Clio Medica/The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine

Notes on Contributors
pp. i-iv(1)

Introduction: Cultures of Neurasthenia from Beard to the First World War
pp. 1-30(30)
Author: Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

Nervousness, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Style: From Luxury to Labour
pp. 31-49(19)
Author: Roy Porter

Varieties of Medical Experience: Doctors and Patients, Psyche and Soma in America
pp. 51-76(26)
Author: Tom Lutz

Neurasthenia in Britain: An Overview
pp. 77-95(19)
Author: Mathew Thomson

'A Mob of Incoherent Symptoms'? Neurasthenia in British Medical Discourse, 1860-1920
pp. 97-115(19)
Author: Chandak Sengoopta

'Uterine Mischief': W.S. Playfair and his Neurasthenic Patients
pp. 117-139(23)
Author: Hilary Marland

Public Views of Neurasthenia: Britain, 1880–1930
pp. 141-159(19)
Author: Michael Neve

Neurasthenia in Wilhelmine Germany: Culture, Sexuality, and the Demands of Nature
pp. 161-176(16)
Author: Doris Kaufmann

Electrified Nerves, Degenerated Bodies: Medical Discourses on Neurasthenia in Germany, circa 1880-1914
pp. 177-197(21)
Author: Volker Roelcke

The Neurasthenic Experience in Imperial Germany: Expeditions into Patient Records and Side-looks upon General History
pp. 199-217(19)
Author: Joachim Radkau

The Public's View of Neurasthenia in Germany: Looking for a New Rhythm of Life
pp. 219-238(20)
Author: Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach

Neurasthenia in the Netherlands
pp. 239-255(17)
Author: Joost Vijselaar

Neurasthenia as Pandora's Box? 'Zenuwachtigheid' and Dutch Psychiatry around 1900
pp. 257-278(22)
Author: Jessica Slijkhuis

In Search of Dutch Neurasthenics from the 1880s to the early-1920s
pp. 279-308(30)
Author: Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

A Harmless Disease: Children and Neurasthenia in the Netherlands
pp. 309-327(19)
Author: Nelleke Bakker

Neurasthenia and Manhood in fin-de-siècle France
pp. 329-361(33)
Author: Christopher E. Forth

Claire, Lise, Jean, Nadia, and Gisèle: Preliminary Notes towards a Characterisation of Pierre Janet's Psychasthenia
pp. 363-385(23)
Author: Sonu Shamdasani

List of Illustrations
pp. 387-387(1)