Book ID: CBB000951986

Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind (2008)

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Stack, David (Author)


Hambledon Continuum


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xvii + 350 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Francis, Mark (2009) Review of "Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 620). unapi

Review Hutchison, Iain (2014) Review of "Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 661-662). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Eling, Paul
Finger, Stanley
van Wyhe, John
Hagner, Michael
Bennett, M. R.
Duichin, Marco
Journals
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
British Journal for the History of Science
History of Psychiatry
History of Psychology
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Publishers
Ashgate
McFarland
Routledge
Wiley-Blackwell
Concepts
Phrenology
Brain
Neuroscience
Psychology
Physical anthropology
Visual representation; visual communication
People
Combe, George
Gall, Franz Joseph
Spurzheim, Johann Kaspar
Broca, Paul
Charcot, Jean Martin
Fowler, Orson Squire
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Great Britain
France
United States
Vienna (Austria)
Paris (France)
Australia
Institutions
University of Padua
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