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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Auteur principal: Wallis, Jennifer (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Collection:Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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Accès en ligne:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56714-3
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Table des matières:
  • 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.