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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain : 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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- ISBN-13: 9781848933088
- ISBN-10: 1848933088
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: November 2011
- Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.05 pounds
- Page Count: 250
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