Book Review: Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth, and Jennifer Wallis. Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780822945512

It’s easy to see our fears of the internet, social media, and smartphones as something entirely new. After all, the issues presented by generations raised in front of screens, and the isolation, polarization, etc. that may come with it, can only be a product of the current moment.