Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder

AvHeather R Beatty

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

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

Utgivningsdatum:2011-11-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:2 041 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
Antal sidor:250
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781848933088

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Klinisk psykologi inom Medicin
Medicinhistoria inom Medicin

Recensioner i media

'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

Innehållsförteckning

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;