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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455656803321

Autore

Andrews Jonathan <1961->

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA, : University of California Press, 2002

ISBN

0-520-92608-0

9786612356360

1-282-35636-4

1-59734-568-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 p.)

Collana

Medicine and society ; ; 12

Altri autori (Persone)

ScullAndrew T

Disciplina

616.89/0092

B

Soggetti

Psychiatrists - England

Psychiatry - England - History - 18th century

Mentally ill - England

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

John Monro's 1766 case book C1-C124 p.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 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.