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George Cheyne: The English Malady, 1733 (Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry)
George Cheyne The English Malady 1733 - Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry
Author: Roy Porter, George Cheyne
In 18th-century Britain, the medical profession began to pay attention to the minor psychiatric disturbances of educated and polite society. Rather as neurosis became fashionable in fin-de-siecle Vienna, "nerves" became a highly eligible illness in early Georgian London and Bath. What Freud was for Vienna, George Cheyne was for 18th-century fash...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780415017336
ISBN-10: 0415017335
Pages: 440
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Publisher: Tavistock Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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