Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a M
This interdisciplinary book explores the connections and tensions between sociological, psychological, and biological theories of exhaustion. It examines how the prevalence of exhaustion – both as an individual experience and as a broader socio-cultural p
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Sighard Neckel • Anna Katharina Schaffner • Greta Wagner Editors
Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion An Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Modern Affliction
Editors Sighard Neckel Institute of Sociology University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
Anna Katharina Schaffner School of European Culture and Languages University of Kent Canterbury, United Kingdom
Greta Wagner Institute of Sociology Goethe University Frankfurt Frankfurt, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-52886-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-52887-8
ISBN 978-3-319-52887-8 (eBook)
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Contents
1 Introduction Sighard Neckel, Anna Katharina Schaffner and Greta Wagner
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Part I Cultural-Historical Perspectives 2 Pre-Modern Exhaustion: On Melancholia and Acedia Anna Katharina Schaffner 3 Neurasthenia and Managerial Disease in Germany and America: Transnational Ties and National Characteristics in the Field of Exhaustion 1880–1960 Patrick Kury
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Part II Exhaustion Syndromes 4 Exhaustion Syndromes: Concepts and Definitions Johanna M. Doerr and Urs M. Nater 5 Burnout: A Short Socio-Cultural History Wilmar B. Schaufeli
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6 Burnout: From Work-Related Stress to a Cover-Up Diagnosis Linda V. Heinemann and Torsten Heinemann Part III
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Exhaustion and Self-Realisation
7 What We Talk About When We Talk About Mental Health: Towards an Anthropology of Adversity in Individualistic Society Alain Ehrenberg 8 Self-Realisation Through Work and Its Failure Elin Thunman and Marcus Persson 9 Exhausti
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