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Investigating the body in the Victorian asylum : doctors, patients, and pract…
Wallis, Jennifer

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 ref…

Edition
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ISBN/ISSN
9783319567143
Collation
xvi, 276p. : ill.
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Call Number
306.09 WAL i