Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum

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 technologies were brought to bear upon the patient's body....

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Hovedforfatter:	Wallis, Jennifer
Format:	Online
Sprog:	engelsk
Udgivet:	Springer Nature 2021
Fag:	Asylum Victorian asylum Britain nineteenth century Autopsy Mental disorder Paralysis Psychiatric hospital West Riding of Yorkshire thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems and services::MBPK Mental health services
Online adgang:	1001539
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