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Customers and Patrons of the Mad -Trade. The Managemet of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London.

Customers and Patrons of the Mad -Trade. The Managemet of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London.

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  • ISBN:9780520226609
  • Editorial: California U.P.
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  • Nº Pág.:209
  • Idiomas:Ingles

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A commentary on the 18th-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 18th-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 practising, not to say inventing, the diagnosis and treatment of madness.

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