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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
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310,00 zł
Zwykła cena
375,00 zł
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Według Heather R. Beatty
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.
Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain