Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Sally Shuttleworth, Melissa Dickson, Amelia Bonea, et al.

Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of travel, and global communications. The literature, medicine, science, and popular journalism of the nineteenth century attempted to diagnose problems of the mind and body that such drastic transformations were thought to generate: a range of conditions or "diseases...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822945517
• ISBN13: 9780822945512
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"