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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press
2002.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Medicine and society ;
12. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798007106719 |
Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part One. Managing Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London
- Part Two. John Monro's 1766 Case Book
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
