Undertaker of the Mind

, by Andrews, Jonathan

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ISBN: 9780520231511 | 0520231511
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/1/2001

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Summary

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Undertaker of the Mind is a wide-ranging study of the place of madness in 18th century English culture and society, seen through the prism of John Monroe's life and medical career.

List of Illustrations

vii

Preface

Acknowledgments

xxi

John Monro: The Making of a Mad-Doctor

(42)

Forging the Early Career

(10)

The Mad-Doctor and the Throne of Folly: John Monro at Bethlem and Bridewell

(7)

Monro and the Great Bedlam Exhibition

(8)

How to Treat a Bedlamite

(15)

The ``Real Use'' of Discussing Madness: The Great Lunacy Debate

(30)

Rivals in Madness: John Monro, William Battie, and St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics

(7)

A Very Public Quarrel

(7)

Judging a Debate

(11)

A Cautious Rapprochement

(3)

Madness in Their Methodism: Religious Enthusiasm, the Mad-Doctors, and the Case of Alexander Cruden

(44)

Opposing ``Spiritual Physick'': The Monros and ``Methodical'' Madness

(18)

Providence versus the Mad-Doctors: Alexander the Corrector and the Monros

(14)

The ``Madman'' and His Mad-Doctors

107

(4)

Cruden's Final Call from God

111

(1)

A Last Judgment of Cruden's Case

112

(5)

Mad as a Lord: Monro and the Case of the Earl of Orford

117

(26)

Lunacy and the Moneyed Classes

119

(4)

The Madness of a Whig Grandee

123

(8)

How to Treat a Lord

131

(8)

Lord Oxford Recovers His Wits--- and Loses Them Again

139

(4)

Mansions of Misery: Mad-Doctors and the Mad-Trade

143

(48)

Great Britain a Great Bedlam: The Wider Market for the Mad-Business

145

(15)

John Monro and the Private Mad-Business

160

(10)

For the Best and the Worst Purposes? Monro, Madhouses, and False Confinement

170

(9)

Monro Becomes Part of the Business

179

(12)

Murder Most Foul, Madness Most High: The Courtroom, the Stateroom, and the Misty Summits of the Mad-Doctor's Expertise

191

(74)

A Notorious Murder: The ``Ferocious'' Earl Ferrers

193

(22)

The Mad-Doctor, Mad Meg, and State Committals to Bethlem

215

(39)

The Mad-Doctor and the Mad King: The Royal Malady and the End of Monro's Career

254

(11)

Notes

265

(80)

Select Bibliography

345

(12)

Index

357

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Undertaker of the Mind

Summary

Author Biography

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