Post-Traumatic Neurosis In Nineteenth-Century Germany: A Disease In Political, Juridical And Professional Context  

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Schmiedebach, Heinz-Peter

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: History of Psychiatry vol. 10 no. 37 (Mar. 1999), page 027-058.
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When John Eric Erichsen published On Railway and Other Injuries of the Nervous System in 1866 he emphasized the crucial causative impact of the railway accident for the ailments he set out to describe. Though he also dealt with other injuries, the title of his book and the term ’railway spine’ established a connection between nervous disorders and the rapidly expanding railway system, a salient nineteenth-century symbol of industrialization, progress and modernity.’ In 1889 Hermann Oppenheim, a Berlin neurologist and student of Carl Westphal, the successor of Wilhelm Griesinger at the Charite-Hospital, gave his first account of post-traumatic neurosis, a disorder which was highly contested over the following decades.’ Oppenheim began his engagement in this field in 1883, and within five years he had observed approximately one hundred cases. In the second edition of his book on post-traumatic neurosis he published forty-two selected cases, thirty-eight of which involved industrial workmen or railway employees seriously injured by machinery they were using.3 By dealing predominantly with industrial accidents, Oppenheim problematized the relationship between social class and nervous disorders.

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