Title Masters of Bedlam : the Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade.

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Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource (376 pages).
Series	Princeton Legacy Library
	Princeton legacy library.
Note	Print version record.
	Cover; Contents.
Summary	Through an examination of the fascinating lives and careers of a series of nineteenth-century ""mad-doctors, "" Masters of Bedlam provides a unique perspective on the creation of the modern profession of psychiatry, taking us from the secret and shady practices of the trade in lunacy, through the utopian expectations that were aroused by the lunacy reform movement, to the dismal realities of the barracks-asylums--those Victorian museums of madness within which most nineteenth-century alienists found themselves compelled to practice. Across a century that spans the period from an unref.
Subject	Psychiatrists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
	Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	PSYCHOLOGY -- History.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
	MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
	MEDICAL -- Diseases.
	MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
	MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
	Psychiatrists. (OCoLC)fst01081142
	Psychiatry. (OCoLC)fst01081152
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	MacKenzie, Charlotte, 1957-
	Hervey, Nicholas, 1952-
Other Form:	Print version: Scull, Andrew. Masters of Bedlam : The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
ISBN	9781400864409 (electronic bk.)
	1400864402 (electronic bk.)

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