From Paralysis to Fatigue

A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era

Edward Shorter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

420 Seiten

1993
The Free Press (Verlag)
978-0-02-928667-8 (ISBN)

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Argues that the symptoms of psychosomatic illness that patients have produced throughout the centuries are shaped by the cultural shifts of larger society, and that diseases such as "chronic fatigue syndrome" are ailments that express the deepest truths about the culture in which we live.

This fascinating history of psychosomatic disorders shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society. Newly popularized diseases such as "chronic fatigue syndrome" and "total allergy syndrome" are only the most recent examples of patients complaining of ailments that express the truths about the culture in which they live.

Edward Lazare Shorter is a historian who is Professor & Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. His specializations are in the history of medicine and psychiatry.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.6.1993
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-02-928667-0 / 0029286670
ISBN-13	978-0-02-928667-8 / 9780029286678
Zustand	Neuware