Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade
Subtitle: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London, With the Complete Text of John Monro's 1766 Case Book
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780520226609
Subjects: History Of Medicine; Mental health services; Sociology, Social Studies; Psychiatry (Specific Aspects); c 1700 to c 1800; Europe - Great Britain - General; Psychology; Monro, John,; History: World; London, Greater London; General; History; Mental Illness; History / General; Monro, John; Psychiatrists; Mentally ill; 18th century; Psychiatry; 1715-1791; Biography; Case studies; England
First sentence: The history of psychiatry, as David Ingleby wittily remarked some years ago, once resembled "the histories of colonial wars[: it told] us more about the relations between the imperial powers than about the 'third world' of the mental patients themselves."