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Masters of Bedlam examines the lives and careers of nineteenth-century mad-doctors to reveal how modern psychiatry emerged from the secretive practices of the lunacy trade. This Princeton Legacy Library volume traces the evolution from unreformed asylums through the lunacy reform movement's utopian promises to the Victorian barracks-asylums where most alienists practised. The book offers a unique historical perspective on psychiatric professionalization, exploring how nineteenth-century practitioners navigated the gap between reformist ideals and institutional realities. By studying individual practitioners and their experiences within the asylum system, the work illuminates how the mad-doctoring profession transformed into contemporary psychiatry. Essential for historians, medical scholars, and anyone interested in the institutional and intellectual foundations of modern mental health care.

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Masters of Bedlam is part of the Princeton Legacy Library, providing scholarly historical analysis of nineteenth-century psychiatry and asylum practices.

The book examines individual lives and careers of mad-doctors to show how psychiatric professionalization developed across a century of institutional change.

This volume covers the unreformed Bedlam era through the lunacy reform movement and into the Victorian barracks-asylums that shaped alienist practice.

Published by Princeton University Press, the work combines archival research with biographical narrative to explore the human experience of mad-doctoring.

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03 May 2016
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