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Sick and Tired
Emily K. Abel
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Medicine finally has discovered fatigue. Recent articles about various diseases conclude that fatigue has been underrecognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have also ignored the phenomenon. As a result, we know little about what it means to live with this condition, especially given its diverse symptoms and causes. Emily K. Abel offers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by her own experiences as a cancer survivor. Abel reveals how the limits of medicine and the American cultural emphasis on productivity intersect to stigmatize those with fatigue. Without an agreed-upon approach to confirm the problem through medical diagnosis, it is difficult to convince others that it is real. When fatigue limits our ability to work, our society sees us as burdens or worse.
With her engaging and informative style, Abel gives us a synthetic history of fatigue and elucidates how it has been ignored or misunderstood, not only by medical professionals but also by American society as a whole.
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combat fatigue, support groups, feminist health activism, westward travels, history of caffeine, sleepiness, electrotherapy, subjective knowledge, Arianna Huffington, disability studies, Gulf War Syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, neurasthenia, productivity, stress, psychosomatic movement, caffeine use in war, medical history, history of patent medicine, triumphal narratives, depression, chemical stimulants in war, health care movements, industrial fatigue, leisure, feminist scholarship, cancer-related syndrome, history of rest, Alice James, Franklin D. Roosevelt, tuberculosis, rest cure, history of disability, history of polio, Josephine Goldmark, energy boosters, exercise, pain, Fatigue, contested diseases, recovery narratives, side-effects of cancer treatment