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- Publisher:
- Pickering & Chatto
- Online publication date:
- December 2014
- Online ISBN:
- 9781848933095
- Subjects:
- History, 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, 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.
"'Beatty presents a wealth of new information and perspectives'"
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