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Zusatztext "Messrs. Andrews and Scull report this fascinating story with a vivid feeling for the period's social history, art and literature." Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Andrews is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities! Oxford Brookes University. His publications include The History of Bethlem (1997) and "They're in the Trade of Lunacy" (1998). Andrew Scull! author of Social Order/ Mental Disorder (California! 1989; 1992) and The Most Solitary of Afflictions (1993)! among other books! is Professor of Sociology at the University of California! San Diego. They are coauthors of Undertaker of the Mind (California! 2001)! a wide-ranging study of the place of madness in eighteenth-century culture and society! seen through the prism of John Monro's life and career. Klappentext "The authors/editors have performed an invaluable service not only to the scholarly community! but to anyone who cares about the treatment of those we call mentally ill. Their transcription and editing of the candid case book of a prominent mid-eighteenth-century physician provide an extraordinarily circumstantial and illuminating glimpse into a vanished world of private psychiatric practice! at once alien yet surprisingly familiar."-Charles E. Rosenberg! author of The Care of Strangers Zusammenfassung A commentary on the 18th-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). Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Part 1. Managing Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London 1. Customers! Patrons! and Their Mad-Doctor 2. A Rare Resource: John Monro's Case Book 3. Profiling Patients and Patterns of Practice 4. The Craft of Consultation: Managing Patients and Their Problems 5. Diagnosing the Mad 6. Religion! Madness! and the Case Book 7. Treating Patients and Getting Paid 8. Being Mad in Eighteenth-Century England: Patients' Views of Their Own Illnesses Part 2. John Monro's 1766 Case Book Notes Bibliography Index ...
