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• catalog abstract ""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 drawn from a great variety of social strata - offers an extraordinary window into the subterranean world of the mad-trade in eighteenth-century London. Monro was the physician to Bethlem Hospital and the second in a dynasty of Dr. Monros who monopolized that office for over a century. His hospital, the oldest and most famous/infamous psychiatric establishment in the English-speaking world, was the mystical, mythical Bedlam of our collective imaginings. But Monro also had an extensive private practice ministering to the mad and was the proprietor of several private metropolitan madhouses. His case book testifies to the scope and prosperity of Monro's "trade in lunacy," and Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull brilliantly exploit the opportunity it affords to look inside the mad-business." "The volume concludes with a complete edition of the case book itself, transcribed in full with editorial annotations by the authors. Apparently the only such document to survive from eighteenth-century England, the case book covers no more than a year of Monro's practice, yet it provides rare and often intimate details on a hundred of his private patients. As Andrews and Scull show, Monro's notes, when read with care and interpreted within a broader historical context, document an unparalelled perspective on the relatively fluid, reciprocal, and negotiable relations that existed between the mad-doctor and his patients, their families, and other practitioners. The fragmented stories reveal a poignant underworld of human psychological distress, and Andrews and Scull place these "cases" in a real world where John Monro and other successful doctors were practicing (and inventing) the diagnosis and treatment of madness."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12703818.
• catalog contributor b12703819.
• catalog contributor b12703820.
• catalog coverage "England".
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description ""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 drawn from a great variety of social strata - offers an extraordinary window into the subterranean world of the mad-trade in eighteenth-century London. Monro was the physician to Bethlem Hospital and the second in a dynasty of Dr. Monros who monopolized that office for over a century. His hospital, the oldest and most famous/infamous psychiatric establishment in the English-speaking world, was the mystical, mythical Bedlam of our collective imaginings. But Monro also had an extensive private practice ministering to the mad and was the proprietor of several private metropolitan madhouses. ".
• catalog description "His case book testifies to the scope and prosperity of Monro's "trade in lunacy," and Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull brilliantly exploit the opportunity it affords to look inside the mad-business." "The volume concludes with a complete edition of the case book itself, transcribed in full with editorial annotations by the authors. Apparently the only such document to survive from eighteenth-century England, the case book covers no more than a year of Monro's practice, yet it provides rare and often intimate details on a hundred of his private patients. As Andrews and Scull show, Monro's notes, when read with care and interpreted within a broader historical context, document an unparalelled perspective on the relatively fluid, reciprocal, and negotiable relations that existed between the mad-doctor and his patients, their families, and other practitioners. ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-201) and index.".
• catalog description "Managing Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London -- Customers, Patrons, and Their Mad-Doctor -- A Rare Resource: John Monro'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 -- John Monro's 1766 Case Book.".
• catalog description "The fragmented stories reveal a poignant underworld of human psychological distress, and Andrews and Scull place these "cases" in a real world where John Monro and other successful doctors were practicing (and inventing) the diagnosis and treatment of madness."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "xvi, 209 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0520226607 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Medicine and society ; 12".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press,".
• catalog spatial "England".
• catalog spatial "London".
• catalog subject "616.89/0092 B 21".
• catalog subject "History, 18th Century London Case Reports.".
• catalog subject "History, 18th Century".
• catalog subject "Mental Disorders London History Case Reports.".
• catalog subject "Mentally Ill Persons London History Case Reports.".
• catalog subject "Mentally Ill Persons history Cast Report.".
• catalog subject "Mentally ill England Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Monro, John, 1715-1791.".
• catalog subject "Psychiatrists England Biography.".
• catalog subject "Psychiatry England History 18th century.".
• catalog subject "Psychiatry London History Case Reports.".
• catalog subject "Psychiatry history".
• catalog subject "RC450.G7 .A645 2003".
• catalog subject "W1 ME6490 v.12 2003".
• catalog subject "WM 11 FE5 A567c 2003".
• catalog tableOfContents "Managing Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London -- Customers, Patrons, and Their Mad-Doctor -- A Rare Resource: John Monro'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 -- John Monro's 1766 Case Book.".
• catalog title "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 / Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull.".
• catalog type "Biography".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "Case studies. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".