Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Heather R. BeattySeries:Studies for the Society for the Social History of MedicineTheme:Aspects (Academic)/HistoricalPublish date:1/21/2016Pages:256
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781138664609ISBN-10:113866460XUPC:9781138664609Book Category:Medical, Psychology, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, NeuropsychologySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.359Product ID:SCK62150EM
This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous disease - a supposedly upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that 'nervousness' was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in eighteenth-century medical theory.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781138664609ISBN-10:113866460XUPC:9781138664609Book Category:Medical, Psychology, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, NeuropsychologySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.359Product ID:SCK62150EM
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