Book Details
Orange Code:54467
Paperback:254 pages
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1. Introduction: Explaining a Fashionable Disorder2. Def ning Nervous Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain3. Quacks, Social Climbers, Social Critics and Gentlemen Physicians: T e Nerve Doctors of Late Eighteenth-Century Britain4. ‘Fester’d with Nonsense’: Nervous Patients in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain5. T e Pursuit of Health: T e Treatment of Nervous Disease6. A Disease of the Body and of the Times
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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, 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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