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

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Tác giả: Jennifer Wallis

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-3319567136

Ký hiệu phân loại: 306.09 Culture and institutions

Thông tin xuất bản: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (276 p.)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 231748

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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