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| Autore principale: | Hughes, William.
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| Titolo: | The dome of thought : phrenology and the nineteenth-century popular imagination / William Hughes. |
| Pubblicazione: | Manchester : Manchester university press, 2022. |
| Descrizione fisica: | XII, 318 p. : ill. ; 23 cm |
| Contiene: | Indice: List of figures. Acknowledgements. Preamble: This far-famed skull: exhumation and the autopsy of talent. 1. Dr Gall: the anatomist, who gives lectures on the skull: phrenology in Britain during the first decade of the nineteenth century 2. A field for quacks to fatten in: phrenology in the British Isles 3. The doctrines of phrenology shall spread over Britain: George Combe and the rise of British phrenology 4. That strange amalgamation of the two sciences: mesmerism, celebrity practitioners and the schism of 1842-3. Conclusion: The decadence of phrenology: materiality and meaninglessness in modern Britain. Coda: The phrenology of Donald J. Trump. Bibliography. Index |
| ISBN: | 9781526143723 |
| Discipline: | Neurofisiologia--Studi. |
| Luoghi: | Inghilterra. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XIX. Secolo XX. |
| Collocazione: | LS 22127 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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