{"product_id":"customers-and-patrons-of-the-mad-trade-the-management-of-lunacy-in-eighteenth-century-london-volume-12-9780520226609","title":"Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London Volume 12","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jonathan Andrews | Andrew Scull\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume concludes with a complete edition of the case book itself, transcribed in full with editorial annotations by the authors. In the fragmented stories Monro's case book provides, Andrews and Scull find a poignant underworld of human psychological distress, some of it strange and some quite familiar. They place these \"cases\" in a real world where John Monro and othersuccessful doctors were practicing, not to say inventing, the diagnosis and treatment of madness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46897556193431,"sku":"9780520226609","price":4523.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780520226609.webp?v=1770363203","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/customers-and-patrons-of-the-mad-trade-the-management-of-lunacy-in-eighteenth-century-london-volume-12-9780520226609","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}