In this brilliant cultural and intellectual history, Oppenheim shows how British doctors and patients made sense of the problem of depression. Physicians searched for physical causes for mental illness, believing the nervous system maintained a charge of "nerve force," much like a battery; only after World War I did Freud's revolution in psychology penetrate British medicine. She also reveals the social prejudices--about sexuality, gender roles, etc.--that shaped the theories (even as she offers many surprises about ...
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In this brilliant cultural and intellectual history, Oppenheim shows how British doctors and patients made sense of the problem of depression. Physicians searched for physical causes for mental illness, believing the nervous system maintained a charge of "nerve force," much like a battery; only after World War I did Freud's revolution in psychology penetrate British medicine. She also reveals the social prejudices--about sexuality, gender roles, etc.--that shaped the theories (even as she offers many surprises about Victorian psychology). This in-depth account offers important new insight into nineteenth-century British culture, society, and medical thought.
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Near fine in very good jacket. viii + 388pp., 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. A very good (+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Quarter-bound red cloth on tan boards, 388p w Notes and Index. Dustjacket in mylar cover. "Drawing on a wide range of sources, and writing about Victorian doctors and Victorian patients with insight and wisdom, Janet Oppenheim has written a fascinating study of how Victorian men, women and children coped with their nerves in the years before Freud. She tells us not only about the history of medicine but much about the age itself, its preoccupations and obsessions." Peter Stansky, Stanford University.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0195057813. Contents include: Sir James Crichton-Browne, Nerve Force and Neurasthesia, Nerve Tonics and Treatments, Manly Nerves, Neurotic Women, Nervous Children, and Nervous Degeneration.
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Good, ex-lib., good. 25 cm, 388, usual library markings Drawing on letters, memoirs, medical reports, and other sources, the authorlooks at how British doctors and patients tried to make sense of depressionin an era of limited knowledge and intense social prejudices.
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