The Cultural Meaning Of Popular Science: Phrenology And The Organization Of Consent In Nineteenth Century Britain by Roger Cooter

The Cultural Meaning Of Popular Science: Phrenology And The Organization Of Consent In Nineteenth Century Britain

Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine

Roger Cooter

418 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history science medium-paced
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This study of the popularity of phrenology in the second quarter of the nineteenth century concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidation of urban industrial society. It is influenced by Foucault, by recen...

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