{"product_id":"anxious-times-amelia-bonea-9780822945512","title":"Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuch 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 of modernity\" resulting from specific changes in the social and physical environment. The alarmist rhetoric of newspapers and popular periodicals, advertising various \"neurotic remedies,\" in turn inspired a new class of physicians and quack medical practices devoted to the treatment and perpetuation of such conditions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnxious Times \u003c\/i\u003eexamines perceptions of the pressures of modern life and their impact on bodily and mental health in nineteenth-century Britain. The authors explore anxieties stemming from the potentially harmful impact of new technologies, changing work and leisure practices, and evolving cultural pressures and expectations within rapidly changing external environments. Their work reveals how an earlier age confronted the challenges of seemingly unprecedented change, and diagnosed transformations in both the culture of the era and the life of the mind. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822945517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822945512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Amelia Bonea","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926544646399,"sku":"9780822945512","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1059ccda-5292-4c58-b00c-80d508d2cce5.jpg?v=1681083662","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anxious-times-amelia-bonea-9780822945512","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}