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 patient's b...
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Gespeichert in:
Autor*in:

Wallis, Jennifer [verfasserIn]

Format:

E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

Basingstoke: Springer Nature ; 2017

Rechteinformationen:

Open Access

Creative Commons ; by/4.0

Schlagwörter:

History

Mental health services

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource (283 p.)

Reihe:

Mental Health in Historical Perspective

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ISBN:

978-3-319-56714-3

Katalog-ID:

1778587259

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