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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

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Series: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine

Medical ReferenceCognitionGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1848933088
ISBN13: 9781848933088
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 1 2011
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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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