Book ID: CBB000029341

Pseudo-science and society in 19th-century America (1987)

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Wrobel, Arthur (Editor)


University Press of Kentucky


Publication Date: 1987
Physical Details: vii + 245 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Stoehr, Taylor: Robert H. Collyer's technology of the soul. Greenway, John L.: “Nervous disease” and electric medicine. Legan, Marshall Scott: Hydropathy, or the water-cure. Delp, Robert W.: Andrew Jackson Davis and spiritualism. Wrobel, Arthur: Phrenology as political science. Aspiz, Harold: Sexuality and the pseudo-sciences. Hendrick, George: Washington Irving and homoeopathy. Walters, Charles Thomas: Sculpture and the expressive mechanism. Fuller, Robert C.: Mesmerism and the birth of psychology.


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Review Pinch, T. (1989) Review of "Pseudo-science and society in 19th-century America". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 275-77). unapi

Review Gosling, F.G. (1989) Review of "Pseudo-science and society in 19th-century America". American Historical Review (pp. 868-69). unapi

Review Gardner, M. (1988 (Mar. 17)) Review of "Pseudo-science and society in 19th-century America". New York Review of Books (pp. 8-10). unapi

Review Mauskopf, S.H. (1988) Review of "Pseudo-science and society in 19th-century America". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 534-35). unapi

Review Sullivan-Fowler, M.D. (1989) Review of "Pseudo-science and society in 19th-century America". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 254-55). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Agassi, Joseph
Bleidick, Dietmar
Bray, Martha Coleman
Carrier, Martin
Davis, John L.
Filguerias, Carlos A. L.
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Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Historical Archaeology
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
History of European Ideas
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Science
Historical archaeology
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
La Rive, Gaspard de
Le Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph
Mayer, Alfred Marshall
Mill, John Stuart
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20th century, early
18th century
21st century
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Brazil
Korea
Senegal
North Carolina (U.S.)
China
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