Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder (Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine) - Hardcover

Beatty, Heather R

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848933088 ISBN 13: 9781848933088

Verlag: Routledge, 2011

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'Beatty presents a wealth of new information and perspectives' Journal of British Studies 'this is an admirable piece of work that sets out the debate on nervousness in a helpful and thorough way... Beatty gives us a balanced view of the real medical context of a topic that has often been examined with very different agendas... [This book] is a good place to start research and teaching on the subject.' British Journal for the History of Science

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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.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1848933088
• ISBN 13: 9781848933088
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 250