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Book Title: Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder (Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine) Book Author: Heather R. Beatty Series: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Hardcover: 241 pages Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Ltd (November 30, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1848933088 ISBN-13: 978-1848933088 Book Description Publication Date: November 30, 2011 | ISBN-10: 1848933088 | ISBN-13: 978-1848933088 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, far from the stereotyped portrayal of nervous patients in contemporary fiction, 'nervousness' was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in eighteenth-century medical theory.  Sharing Widget |
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