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Undertaker of the Mind

by Jonathan Andrews

"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 call him a "connoisseur of insanity, this high priest of the trade in lunacy." Although the basics of his life and career are well known, this study is the first to explore in depth Monro's colorful and contentious milieu. Mad-doctoring grew into a recognized, if not entirely respectable, profession during the eighteenth century, and so many...

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