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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder (Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine)
Author(s): Heather R Beatty (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 250 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781848933088
- ISBN-13: 1848933088
Book 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.
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Review
‘Beatty presents a wealth of new information and perspectives’ Journal of British Studies ‘this is an admirable piece of work that sets out the debate on nervousness in a helpful and thorough way… Beatty gives us a balanced view of the real medical context of a topic that has often been examined with very different agendas… [This book] is a good place to start research and teaching on the subject.’ British Journal for the History of Science
About the Author
Heather R. Beatty
