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

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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Autor principal:	Wallis, Jennifer (Autor)
Autor Corporativo:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Lenguaje:	inglés
Publicado:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Colección:	Mental Health in Historical Perspective
Materias:	History. Social history. Medicine > History. Psychology. Social History. History of Medicine. History of Psychology. History of Science.
Acceso en línea:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56714-3
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Skin
Chapter 3: Muscle
Chapter 4: Bone
Chapter 5: Brain
Chapter 6: Fluid
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Appendix: Demographic characteristics of West Riding Lunatic Asylum admissions.

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

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