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Animals and the Asylum: A comparative approach to the science of mind
This week’s post comes from Liz Gray, who is currently undertaking doctoral research at QMUL’s Centre for the History of the Emotions. Liz also blogs about her work at Tales of Animals Past. William...
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Muscle and mind in the asylum
The bodies of the insane held a particular fascination for the 19th-century asylum doctor. Actions might betray a person’s psychological state in the most striking ways, with bodies subjected to tics...
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(Anti)Vivisection and the Asylum
As previous articles on this blog have highlighted, animals occasionally played an important part in asylum research in the nineteenth century. Their behaviours could be observed as part of the growing...
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