ABSTRACT
This offers a varied perspective on the popular health/illness category of nerves. Relationships between gender and nerves are investigated in terms of biology and epidemiology, interpersonal and social relations, social construction of gender, affective and symbolic qualities of nerves.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |22 pages
George Beard and Lydia Pinkham
Gender, Class, and Nerves in Late 19th Century America
part |65 pages
Latin America
part |64 pages
Mediterranean and Northern Europe
part |71 pages
The United States
chapter |28 pages
Experience of Nervousness and Anxiety Disorders in Puerto Rican Women
Psychiatric and Ethnopsychological Perspectives
