Placing the physical symptoms of stress in a historical and cultural context, the author shows how patients through the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society

From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Edward, Shorter

Mental Health

Free Press

Examines the relationship between social identity and the varieties of psychosomatic illness, tracing the interplay of cultural and biological factors in psychosomatic distress and showing why some individuals are more predisposed than others to develop chronic illness.

FROM THE MIND INTO THE BODY

Psychology & Counseling

A History of Women's Bodies

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pelican

The Madness of Fear: A History of Catatonia

Max Fink

Oxford University Press

Shorter, Edward, History Of Women's Bodies, A

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

Basic Books, Inc., Publishers

The Making of the Modern Family

Sociology

Basic Books

Traces and assesses the discernible factors and determinants of the gradual transformation of the Western family, over the last three hundred years, from extended to nuclear

Making Modern Family

Bedside Manners: The Troubled History of Doctors and Patients

Simon&Schuster

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