
Masters of Bedlam
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Drawing on an extensive array of sources, the authors vividly re-create the often colorful and always eventful lives of these seven "masters of bedlam." Sensitive to the idiosyncrasies and peculiarities of each man's personal biography, the authors replace hagiographical ac-counts of the great men who founded modern psychiatry with fully rounded portraits of their struggles and successes, their achievements and limitations. In the process Masters of Bedlam provides an extremely subtle and nuanced portrait of the efforts of successive generations of alienists to carve out a popular and scientific respect for their specialty, and reminds us repeatedly of the complexities of nineteenth-century developments in the field of psychiatry.
Originally published in 1996.
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Acknowledgements
Ch. 1 The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade 3
Ch. 2 A Bethlemetical Mad-Doctor: John Haslam (1764-1844) 10
Ch. 3 A Brilliant Career? John Conolly (1794-1866) 48
Ch. 4 The Alienist as Propagandist: W.A.F. Browne (1805-1885) 84
Ch. 5 Treating the Mad outside Asylum Walls: Sir Alexander Morison (1779-1866) 123
Ch. 6 The Administration of Lunacy in Victorian England: Samuel Gaskell (1807-1886) 161
Ch. 7 From Disciple to Critic: Sir John Charles Bucknill (1817-1897) 187
Ch. 8 Degeneration and Despair: Henry Maudsley (1835-1918) 226
Ch. 9 Conclusion 268
Notes 275
Index 353
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