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2634-6036 d simply an institution of socio-demographic interest, but a.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 ‘tru

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Muscle,cles and their movements, considering contemporary medical technologies and methods of examination. This chapter concludes by looking at the role of the asylum patient in such examinations, arguing that in many cases the investigation of mental disease was a collaborative exercise between doctor and patient.

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Introduction,sts that we may achieve this by looking at scientific practices in the asylum. ‘Introduction’ concludes with a case study of the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, showing that this was an institution that fostered a research culture that was particularly concerned with the links between the body and mental disease.

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Brain,e pinnacle of the investigation of the body in the Victorian asylum, the brain was an important organ. But, as Wallis shows, in examining and preserving the brain asylum doctors often had to evolve new practices to deal with the degenerated substance of the brain marked by mental disease.