1. Berlin electropolis -- 2. Electrotherapy and the nervous self in nineteenth-century Germany -- 3. Railway accidents, social insurance, and the pathogenesis of mass nervousness, 1889-1914 -- 4. Electrotherapy and the nervous self during wartime -- 5. Psychiatrists, telephone operators, and traumatic neurosis, 1900-1926
Summary
Focusing on the key groups of railway personnel, soldiers, & telephone operators, Killen traces the emergence in the 1880s & then later decline of the belief that modernity caused nervous illness
