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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Autor principal:	Wallis, Jennifer
Formato:	Online
Lenguaje:	inglés
Publicado:	Springer Nature 2021
Materias:	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
Acceso en línea:	1001539
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