Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade : The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London /

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)...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andrews, Jonathan, 1961- (Author), Scull, Andrew, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Monro, John, > 1715-1791.
Monro, John, > 1715-1791
Instellingen.
Geestelijke gezondheidszorg.
Psychiatry.
Psychiatrists.
Mentally ill.
MEDICAL > History.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
PSYCHOLOGY > Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > General.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de sante mentale > Angleterre > Études de cas.
Psychiatres > Angleterre > Biographies.
Mentally ill > England > Case studies.
Psychiatry > England > History > 18th century.
Psychiatrists > England > Biography.
Londen.
England.
Études de cas.
Biographies.
Case studies.
History.
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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