Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder

ISBN-13: 9781138664609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str.

Heather R Beatty;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Explaining a Fashionable Disorder; Chapter 1 Defining Nervous Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain; Chapter 2 Quacks, Social Climbers, Social Critics and Gentlemen Physicians: The Nerve Doctors of late Eighteenth-Century Britain; Chapter 3 ‘Fester’d with Nonsense’: Nervous Patients in late Eighteenth-Century Britain; Chapter 4 The Pursuit of Health: The Treatment of Nervous Disease; Chapter 5 A Disease of the Body and of the Times; Chapter 6 Epilogue;

O autorze

Heather R. Beatty