Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade : The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London
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| Title: | Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade : The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Jonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Psychiatry--England--History--18th century, Psychiatrists--England--Biography, Mentally ill--England--Case studies |
| Categories: | MEDICAL / History, PSYCHOLOGY / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9780520226609 9780520926080 |
