Jake Wynn will talk with Dr. Ashley Bowen, about Irritable Heart and the research of Dr. Da Costa. Send us your questions in advance on Facebook or by email
by David Price
Irritable Heart
Dr. Ashley Bowen will discuss her research into Dr. Jacob Mendes Da Costa’s work with a “peculiar functional disorder” he called irritable heart.
Historian Kathleen Logothetis Thompson explores mental stress, psychological trauma, and suicide among Civil War soldiers.
When Dr. Foster diagnosed Tom with irritable heart, did he essentially diagnose him with the Civil War’s equivalent of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? Not exactly.
Learn more about the doctor that diagnosed “irritable heart.”
Ashley Bowen shares the history of irritable heart, a brand new diagnosis in 1862.
