Nervous disease in late eighteenth-century Britain [electronic resource] : the reality of a fashionable disorder / Heather R. Beatty.
2011
RC530 .B438 2011eb
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Nervous disease in late eighteenth-century Britain [electronic resource] : the reality of a fashionable disorder / Heather R. Beatty.
Author
Beatty, Heather, 1979-
ISBN
9781848933095 electronic bk
1848933088
1848933096
9781848933088
1848933088
1848933096
9781848933088
Publication Details
London : Pickering & Chatto, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vii, 241 p.)
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RC530 .B438 2011eb
Summary
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.
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Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine.
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Nervous disease in late eighteenth-century Britain.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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.
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.