Article ID: CBB000045373

The “moral anatomy” of Robert Knox: The interplay between biological and social thought in Victorian scientific naturalism (1989)

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Description “I intend to explain the relation of Knox's biology to his racism and his politics, and, through such contextual analysis, to clarify his evolutionism.”


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Authors & Contributors
Jenkins, Bill
Winterbottom, Anna
Winsor, Mary Pickard
Sera-Shriar, Efram
Seeber, Hans-Ulrich
Richmond, Marsha L.
Journals
The Linnean: Newsletter and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Archives of Natural History
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
Practitioner
Publishers
University of Wisconsin Press
Sussex Academic Press
Oxford University Press
British Society for the History of Science
Concepts
Biology
Anatomy
Crime
Science and society
Classification of knowledge
Medical literature
People
Knox, Robert
Jameson, Robert
Hudson, William Henry
Sydenham, Thomas
Ray, John
Owen, Richard
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
17th century
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
Edinburgh
Scotland
Sri Lanka
Institutions
Leeds. University
Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women
Association for the Study of Systematics in Relation to General Biology
Royal Society of London
Cambridge University
British East India Company
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