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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder - Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Heather R Beatty 1.º edición
Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder - Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
Heather R Beatty
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.
256 pages
| Medios de comunicación | Libros Paperback Book (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado) |
| Publicado | 21 de enero de 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138664609 |
| Editores | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Páginas | 256 |
| Dimensiones | 156 × 234 × 13 mm · 470 g |
| Lengua | Inglés |