Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine

Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder

Heather R Beatty
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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2015
6 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor and Francis
SIZE
2.3
MB

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