| Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London Volume 12 Contributor(s): Andrews, Jonathan (Author), Scull, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520226607 ISBN-13: 9780520226609 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $62.37 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: "The authors/editors have performed an invaluable service not only to the scholarly community, but to anyone who cares about the treatment of those we call mentally ill. Their transcription and editing of the candid case book of a prominent mid-eighteenth-century physician provide an extraordinarily circumstantial and illuminating glimpse into a vanished world of private psychiatric practice, at once alien yet surprisingly familiar."--Charles E. Rosenberg, author of "The Care of Strangers" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | History - Psychology | Psychopathology - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2002067881 |
| Lexile Measure: 1730 |
| Series: Medicine and Society |
| Physical Information: 1.09" H x 6.2" W x 9.48" (1.52 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |