Customers and patrons of the mad-trade : the management of lunacy in eighteenth-century London : with the complete text of John Monro's 1766 case book / Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull.
Material type: TextSeries: Medicine and society ; 12.Publication details: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 209 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520926080
- 0520926080
- 0585465908
- 9780585465906
- 9780520226609
- 0520226607
- 1282356364
- 9781282356368
- Monro, John, 1715-1791
- Monro, John, 1715-1791
- Monro, John, 1715-1791
- Psychiatrists -- England -- Biography
- Psychiatry -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Mentally ill -- England -- Case studies
- Psychiatres -- Angleterre -- Biographies
- Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale -- Angleterre -- Études de cas
- MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness
- MEDICAL -- Mental Health
- MEDICAL -- History
- Mentally ill
- Psychiatrists
- Psychiatry
- England
- Geestelijke gezondheidszorg
- Instellingen
- Londen
- 1700-1799
- 616.89/0092 22
- RC450.G7 A53 2002eb
- W1
- WM 11 FE5
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-201) and index.
Customers, patrons, and their mad-doctor -- A rare resource : John Munro's case book -- Profiling patients and patterns of practice -- The craft of consultation : managing patients and their problems -- Diagnosing the mad -- Religion, madness, and the case book -- Treating patients and getting paid -- Being mad in eighteenth-century England : patients' views of their own illnesses.
Print version record.
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.
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