Inventing human science : eighteenth-century domains /
Fox, Christopher,1948-
Porter, Roy,1946-2002.
Wokler, Robert,1942-2006.
Berkeley ; London : University of California Press,
c1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: how to prepare a noble savage : the spectacle of human science / Christopher Fox -- Anthropology and conjectural history in the Enlightenment / Robert Wokler -- Medical science and human science in the Enlightenment / Roy Porter -- The language of human nature / Roger Smith -- The gaze of natural history / Phillip Sloan -- Sex and gender / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Remaking the science of mind : psychology as natural science / Gary Hatfield -- The Enlightenment science of society / David Carrithers -- The non-normal sciences : survivals of Renaissance thought in the eighteenth century / Gloria Flaherty -- Political economy : the desire and needs of present and future generations / Sylvana Tomaselli -- The Enlightenment science of politics / Robert Wokler.
Social sciences
Enlightenment.