Book ID: CBB000100995

Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England (2001)

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Andrews, Jonathan (Author)
Scull, Andrew T. (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xxii + 364 pp, illus., notes, bibl., index
Language: English

Description Using case histories of Monro's (1715-1791) patients, explores how mad-doctoring grew into a profession during the eighteenth century. Besides being affiliated with public hospitals, Monro and other mad-doctors became entrepreneurs and owners of private madhouses.


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Review Gilman, Sander L. (2002) Review of "Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 820). unapi

Review Suzuki, Akihito (2002) Review of "Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England". Nature (p. 262). unapi

Review Wilson, Philip K. (2002) Review of "Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 708). unapi

Review Dacome, Lucia (2002) Review of "Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (p. 411). unapi

Review Porter, Roy (2002) Review of "Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England". Social History of Medicine (p. 348). unapi

Essay Review Simon, Jonathan (2005) Madness and the Monro Dynasty. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 51-54). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Silvano, Giovanni
Wright, David
Coleborne, Catharine
Valacchi, Maria Luisa
Scrimgeour, David
Malathouni, Christina
Concepts
Psychiatric hospitals
Mental disorders and diseases
Hospitals and clinics
Psychiatry
Medicine
Medicine and society
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
Places
England
Australia
France
New Zealand
Paris (France)
Italy
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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