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Investigating the body in the Victorian asylum = doctors, patients, and practices /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Investigating the body in the Victorian asylum/ by Jennifer Wallis.
Reminder of title:	doctors, patients, and practices /
Author:	Wallis, Jennifer.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	xvi, 276 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Psychiatry - History - 19th century. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56714-3
ISBN:	9783319567143

Investigating the body in the Victorian asylum = doctors, patients, and practices /
Wallis, Jennifer.

Investigating the body in the Victorian asylumdoctors, patients, and practices /[electronic resource] :by Jennifer Wallis. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xvi, 276 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Mental health in historical perspective. - Mental health in historical perspective..

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Skin -- Chapter 3: Muscle -- Chapter 4: Bone -- Chapter 5: Brain -- Chapter 6: Fluid -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Appendix: Demographic characteristics of West Riding Lunatic Asylum admissions.

Open access.

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.

ISBN: 9783319567143

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-56714-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

799621
Psychiatry
--History--19th century.

LC Class. No.: RC438 / .W35 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 616.89009

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