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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777623703321

Autore

Musselman Elizabeth Green <1971->

Titolo

Nervous conditions [[electronic resource] ] : science and the body politic in early industrial Britain / / Elizabeth Green Musselman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2006

ISBN

0-7914-8206-5

1-4294-1175-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

SUNY series in science, technology, and society

Disciplina

616.8/001/9

Soggetti

Scientists - Mental health - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Nervous system - Philosophy - History - 19th century

Science - Philosophy - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.