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 patien...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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Series: | Mental health in historical perspective
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