Elizabeth Green Musselman. Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain. xi + 276 pp., figs., tables, app., bibl., index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. $75

Joan L. Richards

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Elizabeth Green Musselman. Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain. xi + 276 pp., figs., tables, app., bibl., index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. $75 [Book Review]

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