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

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 patien...

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Main Author: Wallis, Jennifer (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2017
Series:Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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