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

• Main Author: Jennifer Wallis (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2017
• Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
• Subjects: Mental health services; Victorianism; asylums; incarceration; mental health; psychiatry
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...