| Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder Contributor(s): Beatty, Heather R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1848933088 ISBN-13: 9781848933088 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - Psychology | Neuropsychology - History |
| Dewey: 610.9 |
| Series: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.05 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |