Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)

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Undertaker of the mind: John Monro and mad-doctoring in eighteenth-centur…

by Scull, Andrew, Andrews, Jonathan

fromMedicine and society

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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 insa…

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Revelation

by Sansom, C. J.

fromShardlake series

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Defending a young religious zealot who is being held in the Bedlam hospital for the insane, Matthew Shardlake investigates a series of murders with ties to Lady Catherine Parr, a reform sympathizer and future wife of Henry VIII.