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Book/Printed Material Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum : Doctors, Patients, and Practices

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Title

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

Summary

  • This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 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.

Names

  • Wallis, Jennifer. author

Created / Published

  • Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Contents

  • Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Skin -- Chapter 3: Muscle -- Chapter 4: Bone -- Chapter 5: Brain -- Chapter 6: Fluid -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Appendix: Demographic characteristics of West Riding Lunatic Asylum admissions.

Headings

  • -  History
  • -  Medicine-History
  • -  Psychology
  • -  Social history
  • -  Social History
  • -  History of Medicine
  • -  History of Psychology
  • -  History of Science

Notes

  • -  Description based on publisher-supplied MARC data.
  • -  History (R0) (SpringerNature-43722)
  • -  History (SpringerNature-41172)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (XVI, 276 pages 9 illustrations)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019742940

Rights Advisory

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  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Chicago citation style:

Wallis, Jennifer. Author. Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019742940/.

APA citation style:

Wallis, J. A. (2017) Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019742940/.

MLA citation style:

Wallis, Jennifer. Author. Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019742940/>.