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...
Main Author: | Wallis, Jennifer (auth) |
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Format: | eBook |
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Basingstoke
Springer Nature
2017
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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