George Beard and Lydia Pinkham : gender, class, and nerves in late 19th century America / Dona L. Davis -- Gender, emotion, and nervios in urban Guatemala / Setha M. Low -- The burden of responsibility : duty, depression, and nervios in Andean Ecuador / Ruthbeth Finerman -- Notes on nervios : a disorder of menopause / Elyse Ann Barnett -- The universality of nerves / Kaja Finkler -- Nerves and psychosomatic illness : the case of Um Ramadan / Laurie Krieger -- Nevra in a Greek village : idiom, metaphor, symptom, or disorder? / Mari H. Clark -- Living on their nerves : nervous debility in Northern Ireland / Jeffrey A. Sluka -- Experience of nervousness and anxiety disorders in Puerto Rican women : psychiatric and ethnopsychological perspectives / Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- Nervios and dysphoria in Mexican American widows / Margarita Kay and Carmen Portillo -- Nerves, worriation, and Black women : a community study in the American South / Linda A. Camino
Summary
First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Notes
Also published as an issue of Health care for women international