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The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science: Phrenology and the Organization of Consent in Nineteenth-Century Britain

The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science: Phrenology and the Organization of Consent in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Cooter, Roger
Rosenberg, Charles
Jones, Colin

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Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine

Medical ReferenceSports General

ISBN10: 0521673291
ISBN13: 9780521673297
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 30 2005
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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