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Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum Doctors, Patients, and Practices /

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the ‘truth’ of mental disease, a whole host of techniques and technol...

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Main Author: Wallis, Jennifer (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Series:Mental Health in Historical Perspective
Subjects:
History.
Social history.
Medicine > History.
Psychology.
Social History.
History of Medicine.
History of Psychology.
History of Science.
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56714-3
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