TY - GEN T1 - 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 T2 - Medicine and society ; A1 - Andrews, Jonathan, 1961- A1 - Scull, Andrew, 1947- LA - English PP - Berkeley, CA PB - University of California Press YR - 2003 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm52841385 AB - 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 OP - 209 CN - RC450.G7 A53 2002eb SN - 9780520926080 SN - 0520926080 SN - 0585465908 SN - 9780585465906 SN - 9780520226609 SN - 0520226607 SN - 1282356364 SN - 9781282356368 KW - Monro, John, : 1715-1791. KW - Monro, John, : 1715-1791 KW - Psychiatrists : England : Biography. KW - Psychiatry : England : History : 18th century. KW - Mentally ill : England : Case studies. KW - Psychiatres : Angleterre : Biographies. KW - Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale : Angleterre : Études de cas. KW - MEDICAL : Psychiatry : General. KW - PSYCHOLOGY : Psychopathology : General. KW - PSYCHOLOGY : Clinical Psychology. KW - PSYCHOLOGY : Mental Illness. KW - MEDICAL : Mental Health. KW - MEDICAL : History. KW - Mentally ill KW - Psychiatrists KW - Psychiatry KW - England KW - Geestelijke gezondheidszorg. KW - Instellingen. KW - Londen. KW - 1700-1799 KW - Electronic books. KW - Biography KW - Case Reports KW - Biographies KW - Case studies KW - History KW - Biographies. KW - Case studies. KW - Études de cas. ER -