Andrews J., Scull A. Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London, With the Complete Text of John Monro's 1766 Case Book

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. — 450 p. — ISBN10: 0520226607; ISBN13: 978-0520226609.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 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.Managing Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century LondonCustomers, Patrons, and Their Mad-Doctor
A Rare Resource: John Monro'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 IllnessesJohn Monro's 1766 Case Book