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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain Heather R Beatty

Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain By Heather R Beatty

Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain by Heather 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.

Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain Summary

Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder by Heather R Beatty

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.

About Heather R Beatty

Heather R. Beatty

Table of Contents

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;

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NLS9781138664609
9781138664609
113866460X
Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder by Heather R Beatty
Heather R Beatty
Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2016-01-21
256
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