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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder

Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder - Hardcover

by Heather R. Beatty
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Availability:In StockContributor:Heather R. BeattySeries:Studies for the Society for the Social History of MedicineTheme:Aspects (Academic)/HistoricalPublish date:11/1/2011Pages:250
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781848933088ISBN-10:1848933088UPC:9781848933088Book Category:Medical, Psychology, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, NeuropsychologySize:9.20 x 6.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.477Product ID:SCPXFRX4B5
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-13:9781848933088ISBN-10:1848933088UPC:9781848933088Book Category:Medical, Psychology, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, NeuropsychologySize:9.20 x 6.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.477Product ID:SCPXFRX4B5
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