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Title: Undertaker of the Mind : John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2001). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xxii,364 pp, Series: Medicine & Society, 11.. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: John Monro: The Making of a Mad-Doctor; The "Real Use" of Discussing Madness: The Great Lunacy Debate; Madness in their Methodism: Religious Enthusiasm, the Mad-Doctors, & the Case of Alexander Cruden; Mad as a Lord: Monro & the Case of the Earl of Orford; Mansions of Misery: Mad-Doctors & the Mad-Trade; Murder Most Foul, Madness Most High: the Courtroom, the Stateroom, & the Misty Summits of the Mad-Doctor's Expertise.

Keywords: History of Psychiatry, Madness Psychiatric, Medicine Medical, John Monro Bedlam, Great Britain Mad, Psychology British, Psychiatrists, Bethlam Royal, Hospital Insanity

Price: US$ 59.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS005798I