Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade

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The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London

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Medicine and Society

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A commentary on the 18th-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 18th-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 other successful doctors were practising, not to say inventing, the diagnosis and treatment of madness.

Author Biography:

Jonathan Andrews is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University. His publications include The History of Bethlem (1997) and "They're in the Trade of Lunacy" (1998). Andrew Scull, author of Social Order/ Mental Disorder (California, 1989; 1992) and The Most Solitary of Afflictions (1993), among other books, is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. They are coauthors of Undertaker of the Mind (California, 2001), a wide-ranging study of the place of madness in eighteenth-century culture and society, seen through the prism of John Monro's life and career.

Release date NZ

January 16th, 2003

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Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

8 b-w photographs

Pages

352

Series

Medicine and Society

Dimensions

152x229x28

ISBN-13

9780520226609

Product ID

7699008

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