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
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780520926080

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