Heather R Beatty - Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century B torrent

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Book Title: Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder (Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine)
Book Author: Heather R. Beatty
Series: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
Hardcover: 241 pages
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Ltd (November 30, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1848933088
ISBN-13: 978-1848933088

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Book Description
Publication Date: November 30, 2011 | ISBN-10: 1848933088 | ISBN-13: 978-1848933088
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, far from the stereotyped portrayal of nervous patients in contemporary fiction, 'nervousness' was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in eighteenth-century medical theory.
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