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Investigating the body in the Victorian asylum :doctors, patients, and practices

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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.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

306.09 WAL i

Penerbit

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan., 2017

Deskripsi Fisik

xvi, 276p. : ill.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783319567143

Klasifikasi

306.09

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Physicians
Humans
Victoria

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