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Customers and Patrons of the Mad-trade
Jonathan Andrews
其他書名
The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-century London : with the Complete Text of John Monro's 1766 Case Book
出版University of California Press, 2002
ISBN15973456879781597345682
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ej1EzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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 an extraordinary window into the subterranean world of the mad-trade in eighteenth-century London. The volume concludes with a complete.