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)...

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Hauptverfasser: Andrews, Jonathan, 1961- (VerfasserIn), Scull, Andrew, 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2003.
Schriftenreihe:Medicine and society ; 12.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 209 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-201) and index.
ISBN:9780520926080
0520926080
0585465908
9780585465906
9780520226609
0520226607
1282356364
9781282356368

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