Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Affliction

Introduction; Sighard Neckel, Anna Katharina Schaffner and Greta Wagner.- Part I. Cultural-Historical Perspectives.- Chapter 1. Pre-Modern Exhaustion: On Melancholia and Acedia; Anna Katharina Schaffner.- Chapter 2. Neurasthenia and Managerial Disease in Germany and America: Transnational Ties and National Characteristics in the Field of Exhaustion 1880-1960; Patrick Kury.- Part II. Exhaustion syndromes.- Chapter 3. Exhaustion Syndromes: Concepts and Definitions; Johanna M. Doerr and Urs M. Natter.- Chapter 4. Burnout: A Short Socio-Cultural History; Wilmar Schaufeli.- Chapter 5. Burnout: From Work-Related Stress to a Cover-Up Diagnosis; Linda V. Heinemann and Torsten.- Part III. Exhaustion and Self-Realization.- Chapter 6. What We Talk About When We Talk About Mental Health: Toward anAnthropology of Adversity in Individualistic Society; Alain Ehrenberg.- Chapter 7. Self-Realization through Work and its Failure; Elin Thunman and Marcus Persson.- Chapter 8. Exhaustion and Euphoria: Self-Medication with Amphetamines; Greta Wagner.- Part IV. Exhaustion discourses.- Chapter 9. Rechargeable Man in a Hamster Wheel World: Contours of a Trendsetting Illness; Ulrich Bröckling.- Chapter 10. Literary Exhaustion; Michael Greaney.- Part V. Exhaustion and the Social.- Chapter 11. Social Agony and Agonizing Social Constructions; Iain Wilkinson.- Chapter 12. Exhaustion as a Sign of the Present; Sighard Neckel and Greta Wagner.- Conclusion; Sighard Neckel, Anna Katharina Schaffner and Greta Wagner.