Author: James Ward
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Category : Animals in art
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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James Ward R. A., 1769-1859
Author: James Ward
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Category : Animals in art
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Category : Animals in art
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Undertaker of the Mind
Author: Jonathan Andrews
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520927858
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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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 besides being affiliated with public hospitals, Monro and other mad-doctors became entrepreneurs and owners of private madhouses and were consulted by the rich and famous. Monro's close social connections with members of the aristocracy and gentry, as well as with medical professionals, politicians, and divines, guaranteed him a significant place in the social, political, cultural, and intellectual worlds of his time. Andrews and Scull draw on an astonishing array of visual materials and verbal sources that include the diaries, family papers, and correspondence of some of England's wealthiest and best-connected citizens. The book is also distinctive in the coverage it affords to individual case histories of Monro's patients, including such prominent contemporary figures as the Earls Ferrers and Orford, the religious "enthusiast" Alexander Cruden, and the "mad" King George III, as well as his crazy would-be assassin, Margaret Nicholson. What the authors make clear is that Monro, a serious physician neither reactionary nor enlightened in his methods, was the outright epitome of the mad-trade as it existed then, esteemed in some quarters and ridiculed in others. The fifty illustrations, expertly annotated and integrated with the text, will be a revelation to many readers.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520927858
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
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 besides being affiliated with public hospitals, Monro and other mad-doctors became entrepreneurs and owners of private madhouses and were consulted by the rich and famous. Monro's close social connections with members of the aristocracy and gentry, as well as with medical professionals, politicians, and divines, guaranteed him a significant place in the social, political, cultural, and intellectual worlds of his time. Andrews and Scull draw on an astonishing array of visual materials and verbal sources that include the diaries, family papers, and correspondence of some of England's wealthiest and best-connected citizens. The book is also distinctive in the coverage it affords to individual case histories of Monro's patients, including such prominent contemporary figures as the Earls Ferrers and Orford, the religious "enthusiast" Alexander Cruden, and the "mad" King George III, as well as his crazy would-be assassin, Margaret Nicholson. What the authors make clear is that Monro, a serious physician neither reactionary nor enlightened in his methods, was the outright epitome of the mad-trade as it existed then, esteemed in some quarters and ridiculed in others. The fifty illustrations, expertly annotated and integrated with the text, will be a revelation to many readers.
James Ward R.A., 1769-1859
Author: James Ward (Artiste)
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Languages : en
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Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures and Sculpture
Author: Tate Gallery
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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The Chromolithograph
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Category : Chromolithography
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Category : Chromolithography
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures at Woburn Abbey
Author: George Scharf
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Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Catalogue of the First Special (Second Special - Third and Concluding) Exhibition of National Portraits ... Revised Edition, with Indexes
Author: Victoria and Albert Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The National Gallery, British Art
Author: Tate Gallery
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Bulletin - Museums of Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan
Author: University of Michigan. Museum of Art
Publisher: UM Libraries
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Publisher: UM Libraries
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Winter Exhibition
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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