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Pseudo-Science and Society in 19th-Century America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (254 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813165035
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pseudo-Science and Society in 19th-Century AmericaDDC classification:
  • 615.5
LOC classification:
  • R733.P78 1987eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Robert H. Collyer's Technology of the Soul -- 3. "Nervous Disease" and Electric Medicine -- 4. Hydropathy, or the Water-Cure -- 5. Andrew Jackson Davis and Spiritualism -- 6. Phrenology as Political Science -- 7. Sexuality and the Pseudo-Sciences -- 8. Washington Irving and Homoeopathy -- 9. Sculpture and the Expressive Mechanism -- 10. Mesmerism and the Birth of Psychology -- 11. Afterword -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Robert H. Collyer's Technology of the Soul -- 3. "Nervous Disease" and Electric Medicine -- 4. Hydropathy, or the Water-Cure -- 5. Andrew Jackson Davis and Spiritualism -- 6. Phrenology as Political Science -- 7. Sexuality and the Pseudo-Sciences -- 8. Washington Irving and Homoeopathy -- 9. Sculpture and the Expressive Mechanism -- 10. Mesmerism and the Birth of Psychology -- 11. Afterword -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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