What Was Tropical about Tropical Neurasthenia? The Utility of the Diagnosis in the Management of British East Africa
(2009)
Journal Article
Crozier, A. (2009). What Was Tropical about Tropical Neurasthenia? The Utility of the Diagnosis in the Management of British East Africa. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 64(4), 518-548. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrp017
During the first quarter of the twentieth century, tropical neurasthenia was a popular diagnosis for a nervous condition experienced by Europeans in the topics. Tropical neurasthenia was not psychosis or madness, but was rather an ennui or loss of “e... Read More about What Was Tropical about Tropical Neurasthenia? The Utility of the Diagnosis in the Management of British East Africa.