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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain - Heather R Beatty - Bog

- The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder

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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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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781848933088
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 250
  • Udgivet:
  • 1. November 2011
  • Størrelse:
  • 242x163x21 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 510 g.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 12. Juli 2024

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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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