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

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 technol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Wallis, Jennifer. author (author)
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Cham : Palgrave Macmillan 2017 2017.
Edición:	1st ed. 2017.
Colección:	Mental Health in Historical Perspective,
Materias:	Social history. Medicine—History. Psychology. History. Social History. History of Medicine. History of Psychology. History of Science. Victorianism asylums incarceration mental health psychiatry
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:	https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425412406719

Tabla de Contenidos:

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.

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

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