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Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum Jennifer Wallis 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 menta… OL20831118W
Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914 Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914 Louise Hide "The Victorian period saw an unprecedented rise in the number of people who were committed to 'lunatic asylums'. We know something of why this happened, but far less about what life was like inside t… OL23191508W