Nervous conditions : science and the body politic in early industrial Britain / Elizabeth Green Muss...
Nervous conditions : science and the body politic in early industrial Britain / Elizabeth Green Muss...
Nervous conditions : science and the body politic in early industrial Britain / Elizabeth Green Musselman.
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Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2006.
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N616.80019/1
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English
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xi, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
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Publisher
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2006.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2006.
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"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 a...
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Nervous conditions : science and the body politic in early industrial Britain / Elizabeth Green Musselman.
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SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
SUNY series in science, technology, and society.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-266) and index.
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c2006.
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N616.80019/1
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74VKKo0A7JNZ
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0791466795 :
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616.80019
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991021935399702626
