Exhaustion [electronic resource] :a ...
Schaffner, Anna Katharina,

 

  • Exhaustion [electronic resource] :a history /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 152.1/886
    書名/作者: Exhaustion : a history // Anna Katharina Schaffner
    作者: Schaffner, Anna Katharina,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource
    標題: Fatigue - Popular works.
    標題: Social history
    ISBN: 9780231538855
    ISBN: 0231538855
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index
    內容註: Introduction -- Humors -- Sin -- Saturn -- Sexuality -- Nerves -- Capitalism -- Rest -- The death drive -- Depression -- Mystery viruses -- Burnout -- Epilogue: the future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    摘要、提要註: Today our fatigue feels chronic; our anxieties, amplified. Proliferating technologies command our attention. Many people complain of burnout, and economic instability and the threat of ecological catastrophe fill us with dread. We look to the past, imagining life to have once been simpler and slower, but extreme mental and physical stress is not a modern syndrome. Beginning in classical antiquity, this book demonstrates how exhaustion has always been with us and helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about the phenomenon. Medical, cultural, literary, and biographical sources have cast exhaustion as a biochemical imbalance, a somatic ailment, a viral disease, and a spiritual failing
    電子資源: http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/COLB0002318.html
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