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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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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