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
Language: English


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

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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
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
British Journal for the History of Science
History of Psychiatry
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
Ashgate
McFarland
Routledge
Wiley-Blackwell
Concepts
Phrenology
Brain
Psychology
Neurosciences
Physical anthropology
Visual representation; visual communication
People
Gall, Franz Joseph
Combe, George
Spurzheim, Johann Kaspar
Broca, Paul
Charcot, Jean Martin
Gregory, William
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Great Britain
France
Germany
Vienna (Austria)
Paris (France)
Australia
Institutions
University of Padua
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