Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
Heather R Beatty
Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9781848933088
- ISBN-10
- 1848933088
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Year
- 2011
- Publication date
- 2011-11-01
- Pages
- 250
- Dimensions
- 163x242x21
- Weight
- 510