Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Pre-Modern Exhaustion: On Melancholia and Acedia

Chapter 3 Neurasthenia and Managerial Disease in Germany and America: Transnational Ties and National Characteristics in the Field of Exhaustion 1880–1960

Chapter 4 Exhaustion Syndromes: Concepts and Definitions

Chapter 6 Burnout: From Work-Related Stress to a Cover-Up Diagnosis

Chapter 7 What We Talk About When We Talk About Mental Health: Towards an Anthropology of Adversity in Individualistic Society

Chapter 8 Self-Realisation Through Work and Its Failure

Chapter 9 Exhaustion and Euphoria: Self-Medication with Amphetamines

Chapter 10 Rechargeable Man in a Hamster Wheel World: Contours of a Trendsetting Illness

Chapter 11 Literary Exhaustion

Chapter 12 Social Agony and Agonising Social Constructions

Chapter 13 Exhaustion as a Sign of the Present

Chapter 14 Conclusion