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 /

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)...

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ग्रंथसूची विवरण
मुख्य लेखकों: Andrews, Jonathan, 1961- (लेखक), Scull, Andrew, 1947- (लेखक)
स्वरूप: Licensed eBooks
भाषा:अंग्रेज़ी
प्रकाशित: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press 2003.
श्रृंखला:Medicine and society ; 12.
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppz15
विषय - सूची:
  • Customers, patrons, and their mad-doctor
  • A rare resource : John Munro's case book
  • Profiling patients and patterns of practice
  • The craft of consultation : managing patients and their problems
  • Diagnosing the mad
  • Religion, madness, and the case book
  • Treating patients and getting paid
  • Being mad in eighteenth-century England : patients' views of their own illnesses.