Psychology
Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears

Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears

A  history of what philosophers, poets, scholars, scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists have said about tears, tracing the changing meaning of tears throughout the years and across the continents.

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American Nervousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History

American Nervousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History

Hysteria, insomnia, hypochondria, asthma, skin rashes, hay fever, premature baldness, inebriety, nervous exhaustion, brain-collapse—all were symptoms of neurasthenia, the bizarre psychophysiological illness that plagued America's intellectual and economic elite around the turn of the century.

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