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

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.

This book title, Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain (The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder), ISBN: 9781138664609, by Heather R Beatty, published by Taylor & Francis (January 21, 2016) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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