| 书目名称 | Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum | | 副标题 | Doctors, Patients, a | | 编辑 | Jennifer Wallis | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Received an Honourable Mention in the 2019 European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Book Awards.Explores the asylum beyond simply an institution of socio-demographic interest, but a | | 丛书名称 | Mental Health in Historical Perspective | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .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 technologies were brought to bear upon the patient‘s body. These practices encompassed the clinical and the pathological, from testing the patient‘s reflexes to dissecting the brain.. .Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum .takes a unique approach to the topic, conducting a chapter-by-chapter dissection of the body. It considers how asylum doctors viewed and investigated the skin, muscles, bones, brain, and bodily fluids. The book demonstrates the importance of the body in nineteenth-century psychiatry as well as how the asylum functioned as a site of research, and will be of value to historians of psychiatry, the body, and scientific practice.. | | 出版日期 | Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2017 | | 关键词 | History of Psychiatry; Mental health; Victorianism; Asylums in history; Incarceration; Open Access | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56714-3 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-85981-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-56714-3Series ISSN 2634-6036 Series E-ISSN 2634-6044 | | issn_series | 2634-6036 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |
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