Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain
(Part of the SUNY Series: Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Series)
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Nervous Conditions explores the role of the body in the development of modern science, challenging the myth that modern science is built on a bedrock of objectivity and confident empiricism. In this fascinating look into the private world of British natural philosophers--including John Dalton, Lord Kelvin, Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and many others--Elizabeth Green Musselman shows how the internal workings of their bodies played an important...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0791466795
ISBN13:9780791466797
Release Date:March 2006
Publisher:State University of New York Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.11 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"
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