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Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London Volume 12

Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London Volume 12

Andrews, Jonathan
Scull, Andrew

Hardcover

Series: Medicine and Society, Book 12

General PsychologyBritish HistoryMental Health

ISBN10: 0520226607
ISBN13: 9780520226609
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jan 16 2003
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.52
Height: 1.09 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.48
Language: English
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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