Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum - Doctors, Patients, and Practices (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Mental Health in Historical Perspective
Release date:	August 2018
First published:	2017
Authors:	Jennifer Wallis
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	276
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-85981-1
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	3-319-85981-1
Barcode:	9783319859811

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