NARRATIVE MEDICINE
A Fatal Form of Contentment.
A 19th-century query in The Lancet into mass train travel noted vagrants as enjoying the pleasure of travel without having earned it through work—a “fatal form of contentment.” The Internet has come with anxieties and fears just as the trains did. A 21st-century psychiatrist wonders if our hopes for new technology are that different from the hopes of the Victorians. article>> | pdf >>