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

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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Autore principale: Jennifer Wallis
Natura: Online
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Palgrave Macmillan 2021
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