03699nam 2200709Ia 450 991097107400332120200520144314.09780791482063079148206597814294117521429411759(CKB)1000000000466446(OCoLC)74814143(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579237(SSID)ssj0000209323(PQKBManifestationID)11221378(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000209323(PQKBWorkID)10265546(PQKB)10428869(MiAaPQ)EBC3407814(MdBmJHUP)muse6383(Au-PeEL)EBL3407814(CaPaEBR)ebr10579237(DE-B1597)683968(DE-B1597)9780791482063(Perlego)2673438(EXLCZ)99100000000046644620050513d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrNervous conditions science and the body politic in early industrial Britain /Elizabeth Green Musselman1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20061 online resource (290 p.) SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth centurySUNY series in science, technology, and societyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780791466797 0791466795 Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-266) and index.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.Nervous Conditions explores the role of the body in the development of modern science, challenging the myth that modern science is built on a bedrock of objectivity and confident empiricism. In this fascinating look into the private world of British natural philosophers—including John Dalton, Lord Kelvin, Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and many others—Elizabeth Green Musselman shows how the internal workings of their bodies played an important part in the sciences' movement to the center of modern life, and how a scientific community and a nation struggled their way into existence.Many of these natural philosophers endured serious nervous difficulties, particularly vision problems. They turned these weaknesses into strengths, however, by claiming that their well-disciplined mental skills enabled them to transcend their bodily frailties. Their adeptness at transcendence, they asserted, explained why men of science belonged at the heart of modern life, and qualified them to address such problems as unifying the British provinces into one nation, managing the industrial workplace, and accommodating religious plurality.SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.SUNY series in science, technology, and society.ScientistsMental healthGreat BritainHistory19th centuryNervous systemPhilosophyHistory19th centurySciencePhilosophyHistory19th centuryScientistsMental healthHistoryNervous systemPhilosophyHistorySciencePhilosophyHistory616.8/001/9Musselman Elizabeth Green1971-1812248MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971074003321Nervous conditions4364585UNINA