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Title: Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade : The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London
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
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Subjects: Psychiatry--England--History--18th century, Psychiatrists--England--Biography, Mentally ill--England--Case studies
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