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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
by Jonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull
Product Group: Book
Publisher: University of California Press (2002-11-04)
ISBN: 0520226607
EAN: 9780520226609
Dewy Decimal #: 616.890092
Hardcover: 450 pages
Edition: With the Comple
SKU: 08030150
Condition: Like New Very Good
Comments: Hardback in very good plus condition with no markings. Owners plate on flyleaf. Dust jacket in very good condition with rubbing and minor shelf wear. Tight binding and clear crisp text. Very nice book.
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Product 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. 8 b/w photographs
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Wall Street Journal Review
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Date: 2003-02-07
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Note the review of this book that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on January 30. 2003
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