> Some male-gendered equivalents include neurasthenia
> and melancholy. What is, and what are the historical
> origins of neurasthenia?
>
> Alec
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Try:
Anson Rabinbach; "Neurasthenia and Modernity" in "Incorporations" Zone Books #6 and, same author, "The Human Motor; Energy, Fatigue and the Origins of Modernity"
Ian