Talk:Paul Broca

message: I have two questions
First, what methods did Broca use to determine the areas of brain damage? Was visual inspection of the affected patient's skull sufficient, or did it involve autopsy? If the latter, what does one look for in an autopsy to indicate brain damage?
Second, the article defines "aphasic patients" as "persons unable to talk". Modern definitions of aphasia seem to be broader, including almost everyone with a language impairment due to brain damage? Is this definition a mistake, or does it reflect Broca's own usage?
--Ryguasu 01:04 Jan 27, 2003 (UTC)
:Nowadays the specific type of aphasia he studied is known as, not surprisingly, Broca's aphasia. 129.2.211.72 06:22, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: questions

message: I have removed the cause of Broca's death "probably of a brain aneurism" because my source (which has been reliable for most other entries) says he died "possibly from a coronary occlusion". (B.G. Firkin & J.A.Whitworth (1987). Dictionary of Medical Eponyms. Parthenon Publishing. )
Dave 23:06, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Cause of death

message: Why is there not a word on Broca's understanding and dissemination of phrenology? 
What about early eugenics? These are valid topics that Broca was a pioneer in.
--Gautam3 01:13, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NOT a word on phrenology!! 

message: The fact that Broca was trying to prove that skull/brain size related to intelligence suggests that he was as racist as any other scientist at the time, as Caucasian males generally have larger brains. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.212.65.60 (talk) 16:45, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broca and racism 

message: How the hell can Broca form a freethinker's group devoted to Darwin's ideas in 1848 when Darwin didn't publish TOoS until 1859? This part makes no sense, has no citation, and I'm going to remove it unless someone has a citation. 
As I understand it, Broca was at first a polygenist--French polygenists were generally anti-evolution and believed in complete permanence of human racial types. (Broca's hero was Samuel George Morton.) Then later Broca believed races could come into existence by crossing. Then later he thought some kind of "transformism" was correct. See: "Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race" which is readable online. 71.235.76.64 (talk) 23:36, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broca and Darwinism!? 

message: Source text: Classic Experiments in Psychology by Douglas Mook.  Offending material copied verbatim from Chapter 4: Paul Broca and the Speech Center in the 5th paragraph. SabarCont 20:53, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright Violation Removed 

message: I am a member of the APS-Wikipedia Initiative, which is a task force of WikiProject Psychology. I editing this page extensively by adding content, references, inline citations, and links to other pages.  Keep up the Initiative!!!
Maddiebaltz (talk) 08:47, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: And I am afraid that I have removed a lot of what you have added. New World Encyclopedia is not a reliable source. I am actually tempted to revert this article to just prior to your contributions, as some spot checks suggest to me that there may also be other issues. I'll do a little more digging first, however. - Sitush (talk) 23:23, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject Psychology

message: I got some material I worked up for the Anthropology article, as the French are claiming Broca as the founder of anthropology. As this article is still in an intermediate phase I am putting this material here, to be worked into the article later. I'd do it now, but the History of anthropology takes precedence as well as a check and clean-up of Anthropology. I agreed by discussion that all this material on Broca was first of all to give the French a certain credit for an origin of not quite so certain roots, and secondly and mainly to overemphasize individuals in the anthropology article, which is about modern types of anthropological lines of development. This material can't be just thrown in, it has to be worked into the texture of the article. But, I see a lot of citation requests on the article as it is, so it has to be carefully checked if Wikepedia articles are actually to br relied upon as meaning anything. So, let's just leave it here until the moment is right for me to finish it, unless someone else takes up the task. As for the French claim, well, it depends on what one is to mean by anthropology and how Broca fits into the development of it. The main objection in the other article was that physical anthropology is not really anthropology. Well, that is certainly off the wall and its proponent feels that there is no cultural anthropolgy either. That doubtless is is probably part of a "x really is y" approach, so it needs to be looked at carefully..Botteville (talk) 20:56, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: More material

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