| Title |
Exhaustion and the Pathologization of Modernity
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Medical Humanities, August 2014
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10912-014-9299-z |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Anna Katharina Schaffner |
| Abstract |
This essay analyses six case studies of theories of exhaustion-related conditions from the early eighteenth century to the present day. It explores the ways in which George Cheyne, George Beard, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Sigmund Freud, Alain Ehrenberg and Jonathan Crary use medical ideas about exhaustion as a starting point for more wide-ranging cultural critiques related to specific social and technological transformations. In these accounts, physical and psychological symptoms are associated with particular external developments, which are thus not just construed as pathology-generators but also pathologized. The essay challenges some of the persistently repeated claims about exhaustion and its unhappy relationship with modernity. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 30% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |
| Spain | 1 | 10% |
| Italy | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 4 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 30% |
| Scientists | 2 | 20% |
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| Unknown | 29 | 100% |
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| Student > Master | 6 | 21% |
| Other | 3 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 10% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 6 | 21% |
| Unknown | 6 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities | 7 | 24% |
| Psychology | 6 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 10% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 10% |
| Unknown | 5 | 17% |
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