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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: 113866460X
ISBN13: 9781138664609
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 21 2016
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
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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