Book ID: CBB000020901

Conquest of mind: Phrenology and Victorian social thought (1975)

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De Giustino, David (Author)


Croom Helm


Publication Date: 1975
Physical Details: vii + 248 pp.; bibl.; index

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Review Murphy, S. (1975) Review of "Conquest of mind: Phrenology and Victorian social thought". New Scientist (p. 575). unapi

Review Shapin, S. (1977) Review of "Conquest of mind: Phrenology and Victorian social thought". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 177-79). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Cooter, Roger J.
Cowling, Mary C.
Cooter, R. J.
West, Shearer
Wedeking, Gary
Shuttleworth, Sally A.
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Studies in Philology
Society for the Social History of Medicine Bulletin
Philological Quarterly
Medical History
Journal of the History of Collections
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
University of Cambridge (UK)
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press
Concepts
Personality; character
People
Combe, George
Brontë, Charlotte
Watson, Hewett Cottrell
Parsons, James
North, Roger
Locke, John
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
Places
British Isles
Institutions
Phrenological Society of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
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