Nervous conditions
Subtitle: science and the body politic in early industrial Britain
By: Elizabeth Green Musselman.
Series: SUNY series in science, technology, and society
Publisher: State University of New York
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Scientists -- Mental health -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Nervous system -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century; Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Embodied epistemology; title: The nervous man of science; title: The social hierarchy of subjectivity; title: The nervous conditions; title: Provincialism and color blindness; title: Mental governance and hemiopsy; title: Rational faith and hallucination.