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- Title: Wear and Tear or Hints for the Overworked
- Author : S. Weir Mitchell
- Release Date : January 10, 2004
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 515 KB
Description
S. Weir Mitchell's work on the etiology and treatment of neurasthenia, commonly called "brain drain," provided the intersection of medical diagnoses of a serious ailment with cultural critiques of modernity and the vigorous reassertion of traditional gender ideologies. It was for neurasthenia that Mitchell treated feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman and countless others, for whom the pace and pressures of modern society had proved too difficult to bear, and who were exhibiting symptoms ranging from severe dep