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  • Fat and Blood
    SWeir Mitchell / Weir S Mitchell / Weir S. Mitchell / Weir SMitchell
    This volume presents one of Mitchell’s touchstone texts of neurasthenia-cultural critique as medical diagnosis. Fat and Blood was a best seller in its time and went through multiple printings and numerous editions. It fused the cultural critique of modern society and the inversion of gender roles with the medical analysis of this strange new ailment. Today we are likely to read...
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    39,54 €

  • Wear and Tear
    Michael SKimmel / Silas Weir Mitchell / Weir S Mitchell / Weir S. Mitchell / Weir SMitchell
    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...
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    38,41 €