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Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Bonea, Amelia
Dickson, Melissa
Shuttleworth, Sally

Hardcover

Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Medical ReferenceSports GeneralBritish History

ISBN10: 0822945517
ISBN13: 9780822945512
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: May 28 2019
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of travel, and global communications. The literature, medicine, science, and popular journalism of the nineteenth century attempted to diagnose problems of the mind and body that such drastic transformations were thought to generate: a range of conditions or diseases of modernity resulting from specific changes in the social and physical environment. The alarmist rhetoric of newspapers and popular periodicals, advertising various neurotic remedies, in turn inspired a new class of physicians and quack medical practices devoted to the treatment and perpetuation of such conditions.

Anxious Times examines perceptions of the pressures of modern life and their impact on bodily and mental health in nineteenth-century Britain. The authors explore anxieties stemming from the potentially harmful impact of new technologies, changing work and leisure practices, and evolving cultural pressures and expectations within rapidly changing external environments. Their work reveals how an earlier age confronted the challenges of seemingly unprecedented change, and diagnosed transformations in both the culture of the era and the life of the mind.

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