Article ID: CBB406223676

Bloody technology: the sphygmograph in asylum practice (2017)

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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 practice-oriented approach in the history of psychiatry – as a window onto the alienist profession and as a means of investigating how new medical technologies were assimilated into everyday practice.

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Authors & Contributors
Andrews, Jonathan
Hu, Qing
Le Bras, Anatole
Maieron, Mario Augusto
Fan, Tingwei
Liu, Ming
Concepts
Psychiatry
Psychiatric hospitals
Mental disorders and diseases
Medicine
Hospitals and clinics
History of medicine, as a discipline
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
21st century
17th century
Places
Australia
Great Britain
Italy
Devon (England)
England
Québec (Canada)
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