Feeling the Strain

Feeling the Strain
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Publisher : Social Histories of Medicine
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 1526123290
ISBN-13 : 9781526123299
Rating : 4/5 (299 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Feeling the Strain by : Jill Kirby

Download or read book Feeling the Strain written by Jill Kirby and published by Social Histories of Medicine. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.


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