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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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Autore: Andrews Jonathan <1961-> Visualizza persona
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 Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA, : University of California Press, 2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
Disciplina: 616.89/0092
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Soggetto topico: Psychiatrists - England
Psychiatry - England - History - 18th century
Mentally ill - England
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: ScullAndrew T  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Customers and patrons of the mad-trade  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-92608-0
9786612356360
1-282-35636-4
1-59734-568-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910455656803321
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Serie: Medicine and society ; ; 12.