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)...
| Главные авторы: | , |
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Язык: | английский |
| Опубликовано: |
Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press
2003.
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| Серии: | Medicine and society ;
12. |
| Online-ссылка: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppz15 |
Оглавление:
- 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.