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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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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain, Heather R. Beatty
- Language
- Released
- 2016
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Heather R. Beatty
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 113866460x
- ISBN13
- 9781138664609
- Series
- Description
- 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.