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oapen-20.500.12657-284182022-05-04T09:29:35Z Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum Wallis, Jennifer Asylum Victorian asylum Britain nineteenth century Autopsy Mental disorder Paralysis Psychiatric hospital West Riding of Yorkshire bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems & services::MBPK Mental health services 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 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. 2018-09-24 23:55 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T12:22:25Z 2020-04-01T12:22:25Z 2017 book 1001539 OCN: 1076646285 9783319567143 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28418 eng Mental Health in Historical Perspective application/pdf n/a Bookshelf_NBK481824.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-319-56714-3 10.1007/978-3-319-56714-3 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9783319567143 Wellcome Palgrave Macmillan 283 Basingstoke 092991/Z/10/Z Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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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 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.
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