Stanley Finger (St Louis Washington University)

Gebundenes Buch

Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Head Readers

Literature, Humor, and Faddish Phrenology

Beschreibung

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes had lifelong interests in phrenology. Their writings, often humorous, reflect their negative opinions of the head readers and craniology, but not phrenology's other tenets. This book shows how great literature can shed light on the science and medicine of the past.

Autor

Stanley Finger is Professor Emeritus of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. He has published more than 250 articles and twenty-two books, including Origins of Neuroscience (1994), Minds Behind the Brain (2000), The Shocking History of Electric Fishes (2011), and Franz Joseph Gall (2019). He edited the Journal of the History of Neurosciences for twenty years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 159mm x 236mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9781009301299
• ISBN-10: 1009301292
• Artikelnr.: 65242888