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- Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: Medicine and Society
summary
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 othersuccessful doctors were practicing, not to say inventing, the diagnosis and treatment of madness.
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 othersuccessful doctors were practicing, not to say inventing, the diagnosis and treatment of madness.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-11
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvi
- 5. Diagnosing the Mad
- pp. 58-81
- 7. Treating Patients and Getting Paid
- pp. 92-106
- PART II. John Monro’s 1766 Case Book
- pp. C-1-C-124
- Bibliography
- pp. 177-201
- Production Notes
- pp. 210-351
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520926080
Related ISBN(s)
9780520226609
MARC Record
OCLC
52841385
Pages
352
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No