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020			_a9780195057812
028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distributors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c: BW/00030 _d; 10/7/2024
082			_a616.852 OPP
100			_aOppenheim, Janet.
245			_a "Shattered nerves" _b: doctors, patients, and depression in Victorian England. _c/ Janet Oppenheim.
260			_aNew York _b: Oxford University Press, _c , 1991.
300			_aviii, 388p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b2337
520			_aJanet 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.
650			_aDOCTORS, PATIENTS, AND DEPRESSION
650			_aVictorian autobiography
650			_aNervous
700			_aJanet Oppenheim
942			_cBOOK
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