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200 10$aBerlin electropolis$b[electronic resource] $eshock, nerves, and German modernity /$fAndreas Killen
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2006
215   $a1 online resource (307 p.)
225 1 $aWeimar and now ;$v38
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-520-24362-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Berlin Electropolis --$t2. Electrotherapy and the Nervous Self in Nineteenth-Century Germany --$t3. Railway Accidents, Social Insurance, and the Pathogenesis of Mass Nervousness, 1889-1914 --$t4. Electrotherapy and the Nervous Self during Wartime --$t5. Psychiatrists, Telephone Operators, and Traumatic Neurosis, 1900-1926 --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex
330   $aBerlin Electropolis ties the German discourse on nervousness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to Berlin's transformation into a capital of the second industrial revolution. Focusing on three key groups-railway personnel, soldiers, and telephone operators-Andreas Killen traces the emergence in the 1880's and then later decline of the belief that modernity caused nervous illness. During this period, Killen explains, Berlin became arguably the most advanced metropolis in Europe. A host of changes, many associated with breakthroughs in technologies of transportation, communication, and leisure, combined to radically alter the shape and tempo of everyday life in Berlin. The resulting consciousness of accelerated social change and the shocks and afflictions that accompanied it found their consummate expression in the discourse about nervousness. Wonderfully researched and clearly written, this book offers a wealth of new insights into the nature of the modern metropolis, the psychological aftermath of World War I, and the operations of the German welfare state. Killen also explores cultural attitudes toward electricity, the evolution of psychiatric thought and practice, and the status of women workers in Germany's rapidly industrializing economy. Ultimately, he argues that the backlash against the welfare state that occurred during the late Weimar Republic brought about the final decoupling of modernity and nervous illness.
410  0$aWeimar and now ;$v38.
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606   $aMental fatigue$xSocial aspects$zGermany$zBerlin$xHistory
606   $aElectrotherapeutics$zGermany$zBerlin$xHistory
606   $aElectrification$zGermany$zBerlin$xHistory
606   $aIndustrialization$zGermany$zBerlin$xPsychological aspects
606   $aSocial change$zGermany$zBerlin$xPsychological aspects
606   $aRailroads$xEmployees$xMental health$zGermany$zBerlin
606   $aTelephone operators$xMental health$zGermany$zBerlin
606   $aSoldiers$xMental health$zGermany$zBerlin
606   $aPsychiatry$zGermany$zBerlin$xHistory
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610   $agreat war.
610   $ahistory of medicine.
610   $ahistory.
610   $aindustrial revolution.
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610   $alabor.
610   $alunacy.
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610   $amanichean teleology.
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610   $anervous disorders.
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610   $anonfiction.
610   $apsyche.
610   $apsychiatry.
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610   $ashell shock.
610   $asocial change.
610   $atechnology.
610   $atelephone operators.
610   $atrauma.
610   $aveterans.
610   $aweimar republic.
610   $awelfare state.
610   $awomen workers.
610   $aworld war one.
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