Progress and pathology : medicine and culture in the nineteenth century / edited by Melissa Dickson, Emilie Taylor-Brown, and Sally Shuttleworth.

"Conditions such as stress, burnout, overwork, and fatigue are central preoccupations of our era; however, they have a longer history that gives depth to contemporary debates. Similar problems were diagnosed in the nineteenth century, as popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were challenged and reframed by the politics and structures of 'modern life'. Engaging with current scholarship on issues such as childhood, consumer culture, disability studies and the history of medicine, science, and technology, this collaborative volume explores how emotional and physical ailments of the nineteenth century were often understood as uniquely 'modern'."--From back cover.