The elusive science
Subtitle: origins of experimental psychical research
By: Seymour H. Mauskopf and Michael R. McVaugh ; afterword by J. B. and L. E. Rhine.
Contributors: McVaugh, M. R. 1938- joint author.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
Copyright date: 1980
Subjects: Parapsychology -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index, as well as an appendix that contains a Glossary of Parapsychological Techniques.
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: xi; label: chapter 1
title: The Problems of Psychical Research in the 1920's
pagenum: 1; label: chapter 2
title: The Growth of Experimentation in the Psychical-Research Societies
pagenum: 25; label: chapter 3
title: Early Psychical Research in American Universities
pagenum: 44; label: chapter 4
title: A Career in Psychical Research -- J. B. Rhine
pagenum: 71; label: chapter 5
title: Extra-Sensory Perception and Contemporary Psychical Research
pagenum: 102; label: chapter 6
title: Parapsychology in Its Public Aspect
pagenum: 131; label: chapter 7
title: The Articulation of Parapsychology
pagenum: 169; label: chapter 8
title: The Psychical-Research Societies in the Mid-1930's
pagenum: 204; label: chapter 9
title: Parapsychology and Professional Psychology, 1934-38
pagenum: 240; label: chapter 10
title: Towards Professional Acknowledgement
pagenum: 273; label: Epilogue
title: 298; label: Afterword by J. B. and L. E. Rhine
title: 307