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 Maudsley.