Doctors, Patients, and Practices Wallis, Jennifer. creator author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut SpringerLink (Online service) text gw 2017 monographic eng

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access XVI, 276 p. 9 illus. online resource. 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. 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. by Jennifer Wallis. Open Access Social history Medicine Psychology History History Social History History of Medicine History of Psychology History of Science HN8-HN19 306.09 9783319567143 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56714-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56714-3 Open Access 171115 20190116112953.0 978-3-319-56714-3