'Shattered Nerves'
Doctors, Patients, and Depression in Victorian England
Seiten
1991
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-505781-2 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-505781-2 (ISBN)
Janet Oppenheim's 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 moral weakness 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.
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.
Janet Oppenheim is Professor of History at the American University, Washington, D.C., and is the author of The Other World and The Nationalization of Culture.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.7.1991 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 164 x 243 mm |
Gewicht | 780 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-505781-3 / 0195057813 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-505781-2 / 9780195057812 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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