Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade

by Andrews, Jonathan; Scull, Andrew T.

• ISBN13: 9780520226609
• ISBN10: 0520226607
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

An important, nuanced, and fascinating account of the socio-cultural milieu that shaped and constituted the 18th-century mad-trade, centered around the clinical pratice of the most famous psychiatrist in 18th-century England.

Author Biography

Andrew Scull is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
PART I. Managing Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London	1	(116)
Customers, Patrons, and Their Mad-Doctor	5	(8)
A Rare Resource: John Monro's Case Book	13	(15)
Profiling Patients and Patterns of Practice	28	(17)
The Craft of Consultation: Managing Patients and Their Problems	45	(13)
Diagnosing the Mad	58	(24)
Religion, Madness, and the Case Book	82	(10)
Treating Patients and Getting Paid	92	(15)
Being Mad in Eighteenth-Century England: Patients' Views of Their Own Illnesses	107	(10)
PART II. John Monro's 1766 Case Book	117	(2)
Notes	119	(58)
Bibliography	177	(26)
Index	203