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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 /
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)...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Medicine and society ;
12. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 209 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-201) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520926080 0520926080 0585465908 9780585465906 9780520226609 0520226607 1282356364 9781282356368 |