The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science
Phrenology and the Organization of Consent in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Part of Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
- Author: Roger Cooter, University of Manchester
- Date Published: June 2005
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521673297
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This study of the popularity of phrenology in the second quarter of the nineteenth century concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidation of urban industrial society. It is influenced by Foucault, by recent work in the history and sociology of science, by critical theory, and by cultural anthropology. The author analyses the impact of science on Victorian society across a spectrum from the intellectual establishment to working-class freethinkers and Owenite socialists. In doing so he provides the first extended treatment of the place and role of science among working-class radicals. The book also challenges attempts to establish neat demarcations between scientific ideas and their philosophical, theological and social contexts.
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- Date Published: June 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521673297
- length: 436 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 151 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.67kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Note on sources and abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Historiography:
1. From out the cerebral well
Part II. Science and Social Interests:
2. The social sense of brain
3. The rites of passage
Part III. Popular Science:
4. George Combe and the remolding of man's constitution
5. The poacher turned gamekeeper: phrenologists abroad
6. Secular methodism
Part IV. Radical Appropriation and Critique:
7. Richard Carlile and infidel science
8. On standing socialism on its head
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Manuscript sources and public documents
Phrenological journals
Bibliographical index
General index.
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