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). Monro'...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press
2002.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Medicine and society ;
12. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798007106719 |
| Sumario: | 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 other successful doctors were practicing, not to say inventing, the diagnosis and treatment of madness. |
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| Notas: | John Monro's 1766 case book C1-C124 p. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-201) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520926080 9786612356360 9781282356368 9781597345682 |
