Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Explaining a Fashionable Disorder
- 1 Defining Nervous Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 2 Quacks, Social Climbers, Social Critics and Gentlemen Physicians: The Nerve Doctors of Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 3 ‘Fester'd with Nonsense’: Nervous Patients in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 4 The Pursuit of Health: The Treatment of Nervous Disease
- 5 A Disease of the Body and of the Times
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Appendix
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Explaining a Fashionable Disorder
- 1 Defining Nervous Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 2 Quacks, Social Climbers, Social Critics and Gentlemen Physicians: The Nerve Doctors of Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 3 ‘Fester'd with Nonsense’: Nervous Patients in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 4 The Pursuit of Health: The Treatment of Nervous Disease
- 5 A Disease of the Body and of the Times
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century BritainThe Reality of a Fashionable Disorder, pp. 183 - 188Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014