000470601 000__ 02314cam\a2200397Ia\4500 000470601 001__ 470601 000470601 005__ 20210513163825.0 000470601 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000470601 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000470601 008__ 131105s2011\\\\enk\\\\\o\\\\\000\0\eng\d 000470601 020__ $$a9781848933095$$qelectronic bk 000470601 020__ $$z1848933088 000470601 020__ $$z1848933096 000470601 020__ $$z9781848933088 000470601 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm759865087 000470601 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10504755 000470601 035__ $$a470601 000470601 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000470601 05014 $$aRC530$$b.B438 2011eb 000470601 1001_ $$aBeatty, Heather,$$d1979- 000470601 24510 $$aNervous disease in late eighteenth-century Britain$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe reality of a fashionable disorder /$$cHeather R. Beatty. 000470601 260__ $$aLondon :$$bPickering & Chatto,$$c2011. 000470601 300__ $$a1 online resource (vii, 241 p.) 000470601 4901_ $$aStudies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine 000470601 5050_ $$aAcknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Defining Nervous Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- 2. Quacks, Social Climbers, Social Critics and Gentlemen Physicians -- 3. 'Fester'd with Nonsense' -- 4. The Pursuit of Health -- 5. A Disease of the Body and of the Times -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Notes - Works Cited -- Index. 000470601 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000470601 520__ $$aThis 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. 000470601 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000470601 650_0 $$aNeuroses$$zGreat Britain$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000470601 650_0 $$aPsychiatry$$zGreat Britain$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000470601 655_0 $$aElectronic books. 000470601 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aBeatty, Heather, 1979-$$tNervous disease in late eighteenth-century Britain.$$dLondon : Pickering & Chatto, 2012$$z9781848933088$$w(OCoLC)760284736 000470601 830_0 $$aStudies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine. 000470601 8520_ $$bacq 000470601 85280 $$bebk$$hEbrary 000470601 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=2127312$$zOnline Access 000470601 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:470601$$pGLOBAL_SET 000470601 980__ $$aEBOOK 000470601 980__ $$aBIB 000470601 982__ $$aEbook 000470601 983__ $$aOnline