EAN: 9783319859811

MENTAL HEALTH IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE INVES...

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.

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