"Shattered nerves"
Subtitle: doctors, patients, and depression in Victorian England
By: Janet Oppenheim.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Depression, Mental -- England -- History -- 19th century; Depressed persons -- England -- Biography; Depression, Mental -- Treatment -- England -- History -- 19th century
Description: An examination of pre-Freudian psychiatric developments illustrated with biographical sketches of doctors and patients alike. The text attempts to place a puzzling medical problem in its full social, cultural and intellectual context.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-376) and index.