Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum
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....
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| Published in: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective |
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| Format: | Livro |
| Language: | Inglês |
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Springer Nature
2017
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| Online Access: | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31471 |
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