Andrews, Jonathan (Author)
Scull, Andrew T. (Author)
University of California Press
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.
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).
Review Suzuki, Akihito (2002) Review of "Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England". Nature (p. 262).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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