Masters of Bedlam the transformation of the mad-doctoring trade /

The authors use the careers of seven nineteenth-century "mad doctors" to illustrate the creation of the modern profession of psychiatry. The doctors profiled are: John Haslam ; John Conolly ; W.A.F. Browne ; Sir Alexander Morison ; Samuel Gaskell ; Sir John Caharles Bucknill ; Henry Maudsl...

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Main Author: Scull, Andrew, 1947-
Other Authors: MacKenzie, Charlotte, 1957-, Hervey, Nicholas, 1952-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1996]
Physical Description: x, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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