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Author Musselman, Elizabeth Green, 1971-

Title Nervous conditions : science and the body politic in early industrial Britain / Elizabeth Green Musselman
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
SUNY series in science, technology, and society
SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
SUNY series in science, technology, and society.
Contents Embodied epistemology -- The nervous man of science -- The social hierarchy of subjectivity -- The nervous conditions -- Provincialism and color blindness -- Mental governance and hemiopsy -- Rational faith and hallucination
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Scientists -- Mental health -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Nervous system -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century
Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century
Science -- history -- Great Britain
Nervous System Diseases -- Great Britain -- History
Science -- history
Nervous System Diseases -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 19th Century -- Great Britain
Science -- Great Britain -- History
Nervous System Diseases -- history -- Great Britain
Nervous System Diseases -- history -- Great Britain
History, 19th Century -- Great Britain
Science -- history -- Great Britain
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
MEDICAL -- Neurology.
Nervous system -- Philosophy
Science -- Philosophy
SUBJECT United Kingdom
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005014025
ISBN 1429411759
9781429411752