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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Neurasthenic"”.
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A statistical study of the relations of neurasthenic, dyspeptic, and allergic symptoms
Individual or case examinations of the neurasthenic individual almost invariably yield a certain number of physiological symptoms of disorder in addition to the recognized mental and emotional troubles. It is quite likely, for instance, that the neurasthenic's digestion will be upset in various …
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'The Proust of Painting': Jacques-Émile Blanche, the Neurasthenic Portrait and the Nervous Elite of Paris 1900
… (1837-1899), the thesis considers Blanche’s ‘neurasthenic portraits’ in relation to discourses on modern psychiatry, modernity, and modern art, drawing attention to how they enrich our understanding of the social, cultural and artistic contexts in which Blanche lived and worked. By situating …
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"Neurotic Nationalism: The ""American Disease"" in American Modernist Literature"
… in the twentieth century are predicated upon a neurasthenic logic which coordinated American identity with the complex, ""civilized"" neuroses that were supposed to be the exclusive province of the white and privileged. Accordingly, much was at stake in twentieth-century representations of …
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Against the grain: the poetics of non-normative masculinity in decadent french literature
… un-masculine under Patriarchy - specifically the neurasthenic dandy, the male witch, the submissive male, the dominant female, the illiterate male, and finally the aesthetically and sexually impotent male. By revealing the crisis of masculinity to be a self-perpetuating myth, the thesis opens up …
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Eyes In The Text: Surveying The Ocular Aesthetic In Pat Barker's War Trilogy
… ubiquitous ocular presence. For example, neurasthenic patients are scrutinized by army psychiatrists, objectors and subversives are spied upon or imprisoned so that their activities may be observed, and combatants are faced with the challenge of reconciling the horrifying events they have …
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Physical incapacity, its assessment with an analysis of 1200 cases
… and neuritis. Many are accompanied by a general neurasthenic state, an infective focus is frequently found. Most are capable of work. Anaemia is far too loosely diagnosed. In no instance ought a full examination of the chest be neglected and so a tubercular infection missed. Exophthalmic Goitre - …