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Author:

Green Musselman, Elizabeth, 1971-

Title:

Nervous conditions : science and the body politic in early industrial Britain / Elizabeth Green Musselman.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xi, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Scientists--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Nervous system--History--History--19th century.
Science--History--History--19th century.
Nervous System Diseases--history--Great Britain.
History, 19th Century--Great Britain.
Science--History--Great Britain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-266) and index.

Contents:

Embodied epistemology -- The nervous man of science -- The social hierarchy of subjectivity -- The nervous conditions -- Provincialism and color blindness -- Mental governance and hemiopsy -- Rational faith and hallucination.

Series:

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
SUNY series in science, technology, and society

ISBN:

9780791466797
9780791466797 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0791466795 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60393860

LCCN:

2005014025

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)