Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London Volume 12

by Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520226607
• ISBN13: 9780520226609
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.5"