Book ID: CBB000773679

Psychological Subjects: Identity, Culture, and Health in Twentieth-Century Britain (2006)

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Thomson, Mathew (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: viii + 330 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description “Examines the extent to which psychological thought and practice could mediate...a wide range of social and economic, political, and ethical issues that rested on assumptions about human nature.” (from the publisher)


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Essay Review Falby, Alison; Barham, Peter; Richards, Graham (2007) [Essay review]. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 123-139). unapi

Essay Review Thomson, Mathew (2007) Psychological Subjects: Response. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 141-147). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kent, Michael
Wade, Peter
López-Beltrán, Carlos
García-Deister, Vivette
Song, Jinwoong
Dümpelmann, Sonja
Journals
Social Studies of Science
Science as Culture
Science and Education
Public Understanding of Science
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
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Psychology
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People
Talayesva, Don C.
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MacColl, Ewan
Locke, John
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Isham, Elizabeth
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20th century
18th century
Early modern
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19th century
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Latin America
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