Finger, Stanley (Author)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain; 1835–1910), American humorist and writer, followed scientific and medical developments, and relished exposing questionable practices and ideas. In his youth, he pondered how phrenologists were assessing character, and in 1855 he copied sections of a phrenology book and a skull diagram into a notebook. Later, in London, he had two phrenological examinations by Lorenzo Fowler—one without and the other after identifying himself. Following his “test,” which produced contrasting results, he began to ridicule phrenologists and phrenology in Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and other works. He underwent at least two more head readings in the United States, and in Eddypus, an unfinished work from 1901 to 1902, he maintained that phrenologists base their insights primarily on how people dress and answer questions. Although now lampooning the craniological tenets of phrenology, Twain never seemed to reject the idea of distinct faculties of mind associated with specialized brain organs.
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Stanley Finger;
(2020)
Mark Twain’s Phrenological Experiment: Three Renditions of His “Small Test”
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Fenneke Sysling;
(2018)
Science and Self-assessment: Phrenological Charts 1840–1940
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Halliday, Sam;
(2007)
Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James:Thinking and Writing Electricity
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Stanley Finger;
Paul Eling;
(2022)
Phrenology’s frontal sinus problem: An insurmountable obstruction?
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Eling, Paul;
Draaisma, Douwe;
Conradi, Matthijs;
(2011)
Gall's Visit to the Netherlands
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Paul Eling;
Stanley Finger;
(2020)
Franz Joseph Gall's Non-Cortical Faculties and Their Organs
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Book
Stanley Finger;
Paul Eling;
(2019)
Franz Joseph Gall: Naturalist of the Mind, Visionary of the Brain
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Paul Eling;
Stanley Finger;
(2021)
Franz Joseph Gall on the “deaf and dumb” and the complexities of mind
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Fenneke Sysling;
(2021)
Phrenology and the Average Person, 1840–1940
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van Wyhe, John;
(2004)
Was Phrenology a Reform Science? Towards a New Generalization for Phrenology
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Walsh, Lynda;
(2006)
Sins against Science: The Scientific Media Hoaxes of Poe, Twain, and Others
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Matson, John Owen;
(2007)
Marking Twain: Mechanized Composition and Medial Subjectivity in the Twain Era
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Courtney Elizabeth Thompson;
(2015)
Criminal Minds: Medicine, Law, and the Phrenological Impulse in America, 1830-1890
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Benjamin Kahan;
(2021)
The Unexpected American Origins of Sexology and Sexual Science: Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard, Orson Squire Fowler, and the Scientification of Sex
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Plummer, Chris;
Vellar, Ivo D.;
Murphy, Michael A.;
Cook, Mark J.;
(2008)
“A Twist in the Tale” of a Surgeon and His Patient: An Australian First in Seizure Localization
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Fabian, Ann;
(2008)
A Native among the Headhunters
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Courtney E. Thompson;
(2021)
An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America
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White, Christopher G.;
(2006)
Minds Intensely Unsettled: Phrenology, Experience, and the American Pursuit of Spiritual Assurance, 1830--1880
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Courtney E Thompson;
(2019)
A Propensity to Murder: Phrenology in Antebellum Medico-Legal Theory and Practice
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Rachel E. Walker;
(2022)
Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America
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