Franz Joseph Gall : naturalist of the mind, visionary of the brain / Stanley Finger and Paul Eling.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, c2019.
Descrizione fisica:
XIII, 564 p. : ill., ritr. ; 26 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Formative years and childhood memories 2. An emerging theory 3. Physiognomy: facing the past 4. The brain and its functions prior to Gall 5. The nature of soul, or Is it jeust nature? 6. A man of soul and more 7. Of animal heads and animal tales 8. Skull and cast libraries 9. Hostility in Vienna 10. Scientific journey through Germany and Denmark 11. A detour to Holland, Switzerland and back to Germany 12. Settling in Paris 13. The long-awaited volumes 14. Presenting Organologie 15. The arts and faculties in concert 16. New perspectives on insanity and criminality 17. Cranioscopy in the British press 18. Spurzheim's Phrenology and Gall in Britain 19. Controversial final years 20. A rightful place in history. Appendix: names and birth-death dates. References. Index
