Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England by Andrew Scull, Jonathan Andrews

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

Andrew Scull, Jonathan Andrews

386 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

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...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...