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