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'Shattered Nerves'

'Shattered Nerves'

Doctors, Patients, and Depression in Victorian England

9780195057812
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Description
Janet Oppenheims book explores an illness that figures in nearly every volume of Victorian autobiography, memoirs, diaries, letters, and more than a few novels. Variously described as shattered nerves, nervous collapse, neurasthenia, or nervous breakdown, the illness was the focus of extensive medical discussion during the Victorian and Edwardian decades. Few doctors could decide whether nervous breakdown was a physiological disorder, to be cured by medication, or a moralweakness for which the patient needed psychiatric care. Oppenheim uses the letters, diaries, and autobiographies of men and women who suffered breakdowns, examines medical archives, published scientific sources, and contemporary fiction, in which the `nervous type was so familiar as to border on caricature. Shattered Nerves places a puzzling medical problem in its full social, cultural, and intellectual context.
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OUP USA
83910
9780195057812
9780195057812

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Publication date
1991
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
398
Dimensions (mm)
163 x 241
Weight (g)
728
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