Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)

Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull. Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England. (Medicine and Society.) Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. 2001. Pp. xxii, 365. $35.00. ISBN 0-520-23151-1.

As physician to Bethlehem or Bethlem Hospital--more commonly known as "Bedlam"-in the second half of the eighteenth century, John Monro (1715-1791) was one of the best known mad-doctors of his era. Andrews and Scull are eminently qualified to write the history of Monro and his times, and this, the first of two volumes, was instigated ...

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