03281nam a22005415i 4500 978-3-319-56714-3 DE-He213 20190116112953.0 cr nn 008mamaa 171115s2017 gw | s |||| 0|eng d 9783319567143 978-3-319-56714-3 10.1007/978-3-319-56714-3 doi HN8-HN19 HBTB bicssc HIS054000 bisacsh NHTB thema 306.09 23 Wallis, Jennifer. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum [electronic resource] : Doctors, Patients, and Practices / by Jennifer Wallis. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. XVI, 276 p. 9 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Mental Health in Historical Perspective 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. Open Access 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. Social history. Medicine. Psychology History. History. Social History. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/724000 History of Medicine. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/H64000 History of Psychology. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/Y28000 History of Science. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/731000 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer eBooks Printed edition: 9783319567136 Printed edition: 9783319567150 Printed edition: 9783319859811 Mental Health in Historical Perspective https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56714-3 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SOB History (Springer-41172) 5393 5393