E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten
Reihe: Studies for the Society for the Social HIST of Medicine
Beatty Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-32109-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
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The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder
E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten
Reihe: Studies for the Society for the Social HIST of Medicine
ISBN: 978-1-317-32109-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.