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Article: 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.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2005
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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. By Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xvi +209pp.).
In the 1980s, Tavistock Press published a series of books under the title 'Classics in the History of Psychiatry'. These publications involved eminent medical historians editing significant psychiatric treatises from centuries past. At that time it must have seemed like the demand for works in the history of madness was limitless, and with the quality of scholarship from Roy Porter, Michael Mac-Donald, and others, ...