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University of California Press Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London: 12 (Medicine and Society)

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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.

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Brand: University of California Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0520226607
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Historical > 1701-1900
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 16 January 2003
Listed Since: 13 February 2007

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