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fashionable diseases of george cheyne (18th century) Scholar looked to study the disorders plaguing prosperous england as people began to live in more and more excess. Fashioned himself as a sort of expert and presented himself as a model of combatting these nervous disorders (of the fashionable elite) This period was also the age of reason where science and technology was entering the academic and public sphere more than ever before. Natural law was seen to govern every aspect of society from everything from nature to the economy everything had order! (and predictability) Print culture literature was everywhere and was becoming more accessible to everyone: rift emerging between regularity/order and disorder. Anything that deviated from such order created anxiety in the elite. Those who drifted away from the stream of the sane became more and more associated with the insane. This included vagrants, criminals, religious fanatics, people whose behavior didn"t sit well with the educated elite: madness = dual meaning.

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