Author: Evelien Lemmens

Anna Katharina Schaffner, Exhaustion: A History (New York: Columbia University Press 2016) 304 pp. $24.00 Pb, $30.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780231172301 Anna Katharina Schaffner’s Exhaustion: A History offers a comprehensive overview of exhaustion-related conditions from antiquity until the present day. Tracing exhaustion as a medical diagnosis, a cultural phenomenon, and a vehicle of social critique, Schaffner’s…