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005 20180924
020 $a978-3-319-56714-3
020 $a9783319567143
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041 0 $aEnglish
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072 7 $aHB$2bicssc
072 7 $aMBPK$2bicssc
100 1 $aWallis, Jennifer$4auth
245 10 $aInvestigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum : Doctors, Patients, and Practices
260 $aBasingstoke$bSpringer Nature$c2017
300 $a1 electronic resource (283 p.)
506 0 $aOpen Access$2star$fUnrestricted online access
520 $aThis 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.
536 $aWellcome Trust
540 $aCreative Commons$fby/4.0/$2cc$4http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
546 $aEnglish
650 7 $aHistory$2bicssc
650 7 $aMental health services$2bicssc
653 $aAsylum
653 $aVictorian asylum
653 $aBritain
653 $anineteenth century
653 $aAutopsy
653 $aMental disorder
653 $aParalysis
653 $aPsychiatric hospital
653 $aWest Riding of Yorkshire
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856 40 $awww.oapen.org$uhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28418$70$zOAPEN Library: description of the publication