Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
- The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder
- Format
- E-bog, ePub
- Engelsk
- Indgår i serie
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Beskrivelse
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.
Detaljer
- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal256
- Udgivelsesdato06-10-2015
- ISBN139781317321095
- Forlag Taylor And Francis
- FormatePub
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