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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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Serie: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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| Accesso online: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56714-3 |
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Sommario:
- 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.