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UNINA9910780375403321 |
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Autore |
Andrews Jonathan <1961-> |
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Titolo |
Customers and patrons of the mad-trade [[electronic resource] ] : the management of lunacy in eighteenth-century London : with the complete text of John Monro's 1766 case book / / Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull |
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Berkeley, CA, : University of California Press, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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0-520-92608-0 |
9786612356360 |
1-282-35636-4 |
1-59734-568-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (351 p.) |
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Collana |
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Medicine and society ; ; 12 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Psychiatrists - England |
Psychiatry - England - History - 18th century |
Mentally ill - England |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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John Monro's 1766 case book C1-C124 p. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-201) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. Managing Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London -- Part Two. John Monro's 1766 Case Book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro's case book, comprising the doctor's jottings on patients he saw in the course of his private practice--patients drawn from a great variety of social strata--offers an extraordinary window into the subterranean world of the mad-trade in eighteenth-century London. The volume concludes with a complete edition of the case book itself, transcribed in full with editorial annotations by the authors. In the fragmented stories Monro's case book provides, Andrews and Scull find |
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a poignant underworld of human psychological distress, some of it strange and some quite familiar. They place these "cases" in a real world where John Monro and other successful doctors were practicing, not to say inventing, the diagnosis and treatment of madness. |
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UNICAMPANIAVAN00228819 |
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Autore |
Sterken, Christiaan |
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Titolo |
Jean-Charles Houzeau's Escape from Texas : a Belgian Astronomer Caught in the American Civil War / Christiaan Sterken, Amy Abercrombie King |
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Titolo uniforme |
Jean-Charles Houzeau's Escape from Texas |
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Descrizione fisica |
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xiii, 161 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
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00A79 (77-XX) - Physics [MSC 2020] |
01-XX - History and biography [MSC 2020] |
85-XX - Astronomy and Astrophysics [MSC 2020] |
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