Loughran, TL (2008) Hysteria and neurasthenia in pre-1914 British medical discourse and in histories of shell-shock. History of Psychiatry, 19 (1). pp. 25-46. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X07077749
Loughran, TL (2008) Hysteria and neurasthenia in pre-1914 British medical discourse and in histories of shell-shock. History of Psychiatry, 19 (1). pp. 25-46. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X07077749
Loughran, TL (2008) Hysteria and neurasthenia in pre-1914 British medical discourse and in histories of shell-shock. History of Psychiatry, 19 (1). pp. 25-46. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X07077749
Abstract
Histories of shell-shock have argued that the diagnosis was subdivided into the categories hysteria and neurasthenia, and that the differential distribution and treatment of these diagnoses was shaped by class and gender expectations. These arguments depend on the presentation of hysteria and neurasthenia as opposed constructs in British medical discourse before 1914. An analysis of the framing of these diagnoses in British medical discourse c.1910?1914 demonstrates that hysteria and neurasthenia, although undergoing redefinition in these years, were closely connected through the designation of both as functional diseases, and the role attributed to heredity in each. Before the war these diagnoses were perceived as indicators of national decline. Continuity, as well as change, is evident in medical responses to shell-shock.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | anxiety neurosis; degeneration; hysteria; neurasthenia; shell-shock |
Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D501 World War I D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 21 Aug 2017 11:05 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 16:30 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/20232 |