Exhaustion

Exhaustion

Author: Anna K. Schaffner

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0231538855

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Today our fatigue feels chronic; our anxieties, amplified. Proliferating technologies command our attention. Many people complain of burnout, and economic instability and the threat of ecological catastrophe fill us with dread. We look to the past, imagining life to have once been simpler and slower, but extreme mental and physical stress is not a modern syndrome. Beginning in classical antiquity, this book demonstrates how exhaustion has always been with us and helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about the phenomenon. Medical, cultural, literary, and biographical sources have cast exhaustion as a biochemical imbalance, a somatic ailment, a viral disease, and a spiritual failing. It has been linked to loss, the alignment of the planets, a perverse desire for death, and social and economic disruption. Pathologized, demonized, sexualized, and even weaponized, exhaustion unites the mind with the body and society in such a way that we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Mapping these political, ideological, and creative currents across centuries of human development, Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant effort to master ourselves.


Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion

Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion

Author: Sighard Neckel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-06-19

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 3319528874

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This interdisciplinary book explores both the connections and the tensions between sociological, psychological, and biological theories of exhaustion. It examines how the prevalence of exhaustion – both as an individual experience and as a broader socio-cultural phenomenon – is manifest in the epidemic rise of burnout, depression, and chronic fatigue. It provides innovative analyses of the complex interplay between the processes involved in the production of mental health diagnoses, socio-cultural transformations, and subjective illness experiences. Using many of the existing ideologically charged exhaustion theories as case studies, the authors investigate how individual discomfort and wider social dynamics are interrelated. Covering a broad range of topics, this book will appeal to those working in the fields of psychology, sociology, medicine, psychiatry, literature, and history.


Copyright Exhaustion

Copyright Exhaustion

Author: Péter Mezei

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-02-24

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1108910246

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In the Second Edition of Copyright Exhaustion, copyright scholar Péter Mezei offers an expanded examination of copyright exhaustion, including its historical development, theoretical framework, practical applications, and policy considerations. He includes updated case law and statutory developments for the first-sale doctrine in the United States and in the European Union, covering both analogue and digital applications with an eye toward scrutinizing the common rejection of exhaustion in the resale of digital subject matter including computer programs, sound recordings, audiovisual works, and e-books. He advocates for a digital first-sale doctrine that would offer legal consistency to copyright law and a technologically feasible framework for content producers and consumers.


Exhausted

Exhausted

Author: Nick Polizzi

Publisher: Hay House, Inc

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1401962262

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New in paperback, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Urban Monk and author of The Sacred Science draw a clear and thorough road map for healing from exhaustion, inside and out. "We're facing an unprecedented healthcare crisis, and much of it stems from the collapse of the energy production systems of our cells. Exhausted is a timely book that sheds light on the root of this epidemic." -- Mark Hyman, M.D., New York Times best-selling author of Food; Eat Fat, Get Thin; and The Blood Sugar Solution The economics are simple: you can't run on a deficit of energy and expect to feel well. Yet that is what we've come to expect from ourselves, as we have pushed farther and farther down the hole of fatigue and away from any semblance of being healthy. But what if you had a simple road map to reclaiming your health and vibrancy? Nick Polizzi, author of The Sacred Science, and Pedram Shojai, O.M.D., and New York Times best-selling author of The Urban Monk and The Art of Stopping Time, provide: Wisdom from the top scientists, physicians, and experts in traditional healing practices A concise nuts-and-bolts understanding of what energy is and how we use it An exploration of the key areas in which we have been depriving our body of energy From our immune system to hormones to sleep patterns, Polizzi and Shojai offer methods for evaluating your individual needs, as well as safe, easy remedies for whole-body healing. Maximize the potential energy from the essential parts of your body and life so you can finally feel fully alive and find the fulfillment you deserve, both personally and professionally.


Exhausted Ecologies

Exhausted Ecologies

Author: Andrew Kalaidjian

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-23

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1108477917

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Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.


Euphoria and Exhaustion

Euphoria and Exhaustion

Author: Nikolaus Katzer

Publisher: Campus Verlag

Published: 2010-10-04

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 3593392909

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The architects of the Soviet Union intended not merely to remake their society--they also had an ambitious plan to remake the citizenry physically, with the goal of perfecting the socialist ideal of man. As Euphoria and Exhaustionshows, the Soviet leadership used sport as one of the primary arenas in which to deploy and test their efforts to mechanize and perfect the human body, drawing on knowledge from physiology, biology, medicine, and hygiene. At the same time, however, such efforts, like any form of social control, could easily lead to discontent--and thus, the editors show, a study of changes in public attitude towards sport can offer insight into overall levels of integration, dissatisfaction, and social exhaustion in the Soviet Union.


Restore Yourself

Restore Yourself

Author: Edy Greenblatt

Publisher:

Published: 2009-03-01

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780981929910

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"In this important book, Edy Greenblatt shows us the way to achieve a higher quality of life and how to eliminate so many of the stressors that plague and tire us - especially the self imposed ones." -Bronwyn Fryer, Senior Editor, Harvard Business Review "This inspiring book translates years of thoughtful social scientific research into actionable strategies for bringing positive energy back into our work and lives. Restore Yourself not only advances the argument that restoration is critical to both productivity and happiness, it shows us HOW to find that energy and then capitalize on it every day." -Monica C. Higgins, Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and author, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry .."astonishingly timely, useful and important. Please read it before you die because it may add a few years to your life." -Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California and best selling author of Leaders, An Invented Life and On Becoming a Leader.


Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout

Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2020-01-02

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0309495474

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Patient-centered, high-quality health care relies on the well-being, health, and safety of health care clinicians. However, alarmingly high rates of clinician burnout in the United States are detrimental to the quality of care being provided, harmful to individuals in the workforce, and costly. It is important to take a systemic approach to address burnout that focuses on the structure, organization, and culture of health care. Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being builds upon two groundbreaking reports from the past twenty years, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, which both called attention to the issues around patient safety and quality of care. This report explores the extent, consequences, and contributing factors of clinician burnout and provides a framework for a systems approach to clinician burnout and professional well-being, a research agenda to advance clinician well-being, and recommendations for the field.


The Burnout Society

The Burnout Society

Author: Byung-Chul Han

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2015-08-12

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 0804797501

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Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, he draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and natural sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent intellectual reflection for constant neural connection.


Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction

Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Antulio J. Echevarria II

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0197760155

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Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction adapts Clausewitz's framework to highlight the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy: purpose, method, and means. Drawing on historical examples, Antulio J. Echevarria discusses the major types of military strategy and how emerging technologies are affecting them. This second edition has been updated to include an expanded chapter on manipulation through cyberwarfare and new further reading.