{"id":1526,"date":"2017-12-12T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T12:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2017-12-12T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T12:02:44","slug":"new-book-by-jennifer-wallis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/news\/new-book-by-jennifer-wallis\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book by Jennifer Wallis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qmul.ac.uk\/history\/our-staff\/academic-staff\/profiles\/wallisjennifer.html\">Jennifer Wallis<\/a>&#8216;s monograph\u00a0<em>Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices<\/em>\u00a0is out now!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/gb\/book\/9783319567136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Palgrave, 2017) considers how the body was examined \u2013 both before and after death \u2013 in the late Victorian asylum in Britain. Performing a chapter-by-chapter \u2018dissection\u2019 of the body, it considers how the patient\u2019s skin, muscles, bones, brain, and bodily fluids were studied and came to inform contemporary theories about mental disease. Along the way, Wallis considers the historian\u2019s emotional engagement with sources such as medical photographs, as well as how 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century asylum practice was shaped by interactions between doctor and patient.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1527\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/12\/jen-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"216\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Wallis&#8217;s monograph\u00a0<em>Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices<\/em>\u00a0is out now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}