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- catalog abstract "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 existedthen, 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. - Publisher.".
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- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "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 existedthen, 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. - Publisher.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical notes and bibliography (p. 265-355) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface -- Acknowledgments -- John Monro : the making of a mad-doctor -- Real use of discussing madness : the great lunacy debate -- Madness in their methodism : religious enthusiasm, the mad-doctors, and the case of Alexander Cruden -- Mad as a lord : Monro and the case of the Earl of Orford -- Mansions of misery : mad-doctors and the mad-trade -- Murder most foul, madness most high : the courtroom, the stateroom, and the misty summits of the mad-doctor's expertise.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 364 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520231511 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Medicine and society ; 11".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "616.89/0092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)".
- catalog subject "History, 18th Century England.".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century England.".
- catalog subject "Hospitals, Psychiatric England History.".
- catalog subject "Mental Disorders therapy England.".
- catalog subject "Mentally Ill Persons England History.".
- catalog subject "Mentally ill England Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Monro, John, 1715-1791.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatrists England Biography.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatry England Biography.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatry England Case Reports.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatry History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "RC438.6.M66 A53 2001".
- catalog subject "W1 ME6490 v.11 2001".
- catalog subject "WZ 100 M7522A 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- Acknowledgments -- John Monro : the making of a mad-doctor -- Real use of discussing madness : the great lunacy debate -- Madness in their methodism : religious enthusiasm, the mad-doctors, and the case of Alexander Cruden -- Mad as a lord : Monro and the case of the Earl of Orford -- Mansions of misery : mad-doctors and the mad-trade -- Murder most foul, madness most high : the courtroom, the stateroom, and the misty summits of the mad-doctor's expertise.".
- catalog title "Undertaker of the mind : John Monro and mad-doctoring in eighteenth-century England / Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".