William H. Sheldon and the culture of the somatotype
By: Stephen H. Gatlin
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604977394
Subjects: Psychology; Constitution; Psychological aspects; Human beings; History; Somatotypes; Eugenics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Anthony M. Ludovici and William H. Sheldon: an "elective affinity"; title: The constitutional origins of modern disease; title: Sheldon's psychology and the Promethean will and the social roots of countermodernity; title: Sheldon, modernity, and a eugenic psychology; title: Aldous Huxley and his circle: the cultural meaning of constitutional psychology; title: "A brilliant investigator of the lone-wolf type": Rockefeller Foundation  funding and William H. Sheldon's research in constitutional medicine, 1942-1955; title: Sheldon malgre lui; title: Conclusion: modernism, eugenics, and literature.