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Is exhaustion a modern phenomenon?

Exhaustion: is extreme fatigue a peculiarly modern phenomenon? Laurie Taylor talks to Ann Katharina Schaffner, Reader in Comparative Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Kent and author of a multi disciplinary study into weariness, past and present.

First broadcast on Thinking Allowed, 31 July 2017.

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