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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvHeather R Beatty

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-01-21
Mått156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt470 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
Antal sidor256
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138664609

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Klinisk psykologi inom Medicin
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Introduction: Explaining a Fashionable Disorder; Chapter 1 Defining Nervous Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain; Chapter 2 Quacks, Social Climbers, Social Critics and Gentlemen Physicians: The Nerve Doctors of late Eighteenth-Century Britain; Chapter 3 ‘Fester’d with Nonsense’: Nervous Patients in late Eighteenth-Century Britain; Chapter 4 The Pursuit of Health: The Treatment of Nervous Disease; Chapter 5 A Disease of the Body and of the Times; Chapter 6 Epilogue;