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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 |
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 |
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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