Nervous disease in late eighteenth-century britain: the reality of a fashionable disorder
Auteur :
Beatty, Heather R
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781848933088
Date de publication :
1 nov. 2011
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
2041 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.