Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 2605
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-319-56714-3
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- ISBN
- 9783319567136
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book offers a novel exploration of the investigation and construction of the body in Victorian asylum practice. Although the late nineteenth-century turn to biological models is widely acknowledged in the historiography, existing accounts have always approached this transformation by drawing upon the familiar materials of legal and social history. This book is the first work to consider how the body was constructed and the techniques and technologies developed in asylum care that allowed it to be reimagined. It offers a detailed and grounded analysis of the making of the deviant body in laboratory practice and asylum administration.
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- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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