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Damaging the body : mini documentaries.
- Date
- 2012
- Videos
About this work
Also known as
Damaging the body : extraordinary eaters : food, foreign bodies & medical Intervention.
Food, foreign bodies and medical Intervention
Description
Collection of 4 short films, the culmination of a Wellcome Trust funded project on 'Damaging the Body'.
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2012.
Physical description
1 DVD (25 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm
Contents
Swallowed and saved / Mary Cappello -- Restraint and force-feeding : care, cure and coercion in late nineteenth-century asylums / Sarah Chaney -- Therapeutic fasting : Dr. Henry S. Tanner (1831-1919) / Joanne Ella Parsons -- Extraordinary eaters : enlightened sugeons and foreign bodies in the eigtheenth century / Emma Spary.
Type/Technique
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores5628D