Stanley Finger (St Louis Washington University)

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

Literature, Humor, and Faddish Phrenology

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Preface
1. The birth of a controversial doctrine
2. Coming to America
3. Skeptical in Hannibal
4. The river, the west, and phrenology abroad
5. Mark Twain's 'small test'
6. Tom, Huck, and the head readers
7. More head readings and a phrenological farewell
8. Young Holmes and phrenology in Boston
9. An American in Paris
10. Quackery and Holmes's head reading
11. Holmes's professor on 'bumpology'
12. Holmes's 'medicated novels'
13. Mr. Clemens and Dr. Holmes
14. Phrenology assessed
Epilogue
References
Index.