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Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum

Doctors, Patients, and Practices de

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Palgrave Macmillan


Collection :

Mental Health in Historical Perspective

Paru le : 2017-11-14

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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 technologies were brought to bear upon the patient's body. These practices encompassed the clinical and the pathological, from testing the patient's reflexes to dissecting the brain.

Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum takes a unique approach to the topic, conducting a chapter-by-chapter dissection of the body. It considers how asylum doctors viewed and investigated the skin, muscles, bones, brain, and bodily fluids. The book demonstrates the importance of the body in nineteenth-century psychiatry as well as how the asylum functioned as a site of research, and will be of value to historians of psychiatry, the body, and scientific practice.
Pages
276 pages
Collection
Mental Health in Historical Perspective
Parution
2017-11-14
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783319567136
EAN PDF
9783319567143
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Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
27
Taille du fichier
5181 Ko
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0,00 €
EAN EPUB
9783319567143
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
27
Taille du fichier
1915 Ko
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0,00 €

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