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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain - The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,502
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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain - The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder (Paperback): Heather R. Beatty

Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain - The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder (Paperback)

Heather R. Beatty

Series: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine

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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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
Release date: 2016
First published: 2012
Authors: Heather R. Beatty
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-66460-9
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General
LSN: 1-138-66460-X
Barcode: 9781138664609

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