Undertaker of the Mind - John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England

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List of contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. John Monro: The Making of a Mad-Doctor
2. The "Real Use" of Discussing Madness: The Great Lunacy Debate
3. Madness in Their Methodism: Religious Enthusiasm, the Mad-Doctors, and the Case of Alexander Cruden
4. Mad as a Lord: Monro and the Case of the Earl of Orford
5. Mansions of Misery: Mad-Doctors and the Mad-Trade
6. Murder Most Foul, Madness Most High: The Courtroom, the Stateroom, and the Misty Summits of the Mad-Doctor's Expertise
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

About the author

Jonathan Andrews is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University. His publications include The History of Bethlem (1997) and "They're in the Trade of Lunacy" (1998). Andrew Scull, author of Social Order/Mental Disorder (California, 1989; 1992) and The Most Solitary of Afflictions (1993), among other books, is Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Summary

As visiting physician to Bethlem Hospital, the archetypal 'Bedlam' and Britain's first and (for hundreds of years) only public institution for the insane, Dr John Monro (1715-1791) was a celebrity in his own day. This study explores Monro's colorful and contentious milieu.

Additional text

"Messrs. Andrews and Scull report this fascinating story with a vivid feeling for the period's social history, art and literature."

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Andrews, Jonathan Scull Andrews, Andrews Jonathan, Andrews/Scull, Andrew Scull, Scull Andrew
• Assisted by: Jonathan Andrews (Editor), Andrew Scull (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2001
• EAN: 9780520231511
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23151-1
• No. of pages: 386
• Series: Medicine and Society S.; Medicine and Society; Medicine and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; England, History: specific events & topics, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, MEDICAL / Mental Health, HISTORY / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Mental health services, History: specific events and topics, Biography: historical, political and military, C 1700 To C 1800