Davis, Dona Lee; Whitten, Richard G. - In: Social Science & Medicine 26 (1988) 12, pp. 1209-1221
We question the assumption that the common complaint of nerves in small Newfoundland fishing villages is a legacy of the late 19th century syndrome called weak nerves or neurasthenia, and instead trace the development of a Western medical science of nerves from the early 1700s to the present....