Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade - The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Medicine and Society, 12
Release date:	2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	Jonathan Andrews • Andrew Scull
Dimensions:	235 x 160 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	209
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-22660-9
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-520-22660-7
Barcode:	9780520226609

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