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Bloody technology: the sphygmograph in asylum practice

The sphygmograph, an instrument to measure and visually chart the pulse, was used by a number of asylum researchers in the late nineteenth century in an attempt to better understand mental disease. In charting the use of such a medical technology in the asylum, this article explores the utility of a...

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Autor principal: Wallis, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5546421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28361548
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154X17700292