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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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2017
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| Series: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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