| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 209 pages) : illustrations |
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Medicine and society ; 12 |
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Medicine and society ; 12.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-201) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Monro, John, 1715-1791.
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| SUBJECT |
Monro, John, 1715-1791 |
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Monro, John, 1715-1791 fast |
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Psychiatrists -- England -- Biography
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Psychiatry -- England -- History -- 18th century
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Mentally ill -- England -- Case studies
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MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
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MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
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MEDICAL -- History.
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Mentally ill
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Psychiatrists
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Psychiatry
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Geestelijke gezondheidszorg.
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Instellingen.
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England
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Londen.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Case studies
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History
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Biographies.
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Case studies.
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Biographies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scull, Andrew, 1947- author
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| ISBN |
9780520926080 |
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0520926080 |
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0585465908 |
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9780585465906 |
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9780520226609 |
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0520226607 |
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1282356364 |
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9781282356368 |
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