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Undertaker of the Mind - John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
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Undertaker of the Mind - John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
Series: Medicine and Society, 11
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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. Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull call
him a "connoisseur of insanity, this high priest of the trade in
lunacy." Although the basics of his life and career are well known,
this study is the first to explore in depth Monro's colorful and
contentious milieu. Mad-doctoring grew into a recognized, if not
entirely respectable, profession during the eighteenth century, and
besides being affiliated with public hospitals, Monro and other
mad-doctors became entrepreneurs and owners of private madhouses
and were consulted by the rich and famous.
Monro's close social connections with members of the aristocracy
and gentry, as well as with medical professionals, politicians, and
divines, guaranteed him a significant place in the social,
political, cultural, and intellectual worlds of his time. Andrews
and Scull draw on an astonishing array of visual materials and
verbal sources that include the diaries, family papers, and
correspondence of some of England's wealthiest and best-connected
citizens. The book is also distinctive in the coverage it affords
to individual case histories of Monro's patients, including such
prominent contemporary figures as the Earls Ferrers and Orford, the
religious "enthusiast" Alexander Cruden, and the "mad" King George
III, as well as his crazy would-be assassin, Margaret Nicholson.
What the authors make clear is that Monro, a serious physician
neither reactionary nor enlightened in his methods, was the
outright epitome of the mad-trade as it existed then, esteemed in
some quarters and ridiculed in others. The fifty illustrations,
expertly annotated and integrated with the text, will be a
revelation to many readers.
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