Heather R Beatty

Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781138664609
• ISBN-10: 113866460X
• Artikelnr.: 45327368

Autorenporträt

Heather R. Beatty

Inhaltsangabe

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