Del 12 - Medicine and Society
Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade
The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London
Inbunden, Engelska, 2003
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2003-01-16
- Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
- Vikt680 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieMedicine and Society
- Antal sidor352
- FörlagUniversity of California Press
- ISBN9780520226609