Gall Spurzheim And The Phrenological Movement
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Gall Spurzheim and the Phrenological Movement
Author | : Paul Eling,Stanley Finger |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781000388381 |
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During the 1790s in Vienna, German physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) came forth with a new doctrine dealing with mind, brain and behavior—one that could account for individual differences. He maintained that there are many independent faculties of mind, each associated with a separate part of the brain. He fine-tuned his ideas and published two sets of books presenting them after he and his assistant, Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, settled in Paris in 1807. Gall's ideas had many supporters but were controversial and unsettling to others. In particular, the opposition ridiculed his belief that skull features reflect the growth of specific, underlying cortical organs, and hence correlate with personality traits (i.e., his ‘bumpology’). Gall’s fundamental ideas about the mind and organization of the brain were debated across the globe, and they also began to be exploited by unscrupulous businessmen, ‘professors’ who ‘read skulls’ for a living. But, as some historians have shown, his ideas about mind, brain and behavior led to the modern neurosciences. The chapters collected in this volume provide new insights into Gall’s thinking and what Spurzheim did, and the faddish movement called ‘phrenology’, which originated as a science of humankind but became a popular source of entertainment. All chapters were originally published in various issues of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.
Franz Joseph Gall
Author | : Stanley Finger,Paul Eling |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780190464622 |
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Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) was always a controversial figure, as was his doctrine, later called phrenology. Although often portrayed as a discredited buffoon, who believed he could assess a person's strengths and weaknesses by measuring cranial bumps, he was, in fact, a serious physician-scientist, who strove to answer timely questions about the mind, brain, and behavior. In many ways a remarkable visionary, his seminal ideas would become tenets of modern behavioral neuroscience. Among other things, he was the first scientist to promote publicly the idea of specialized cortical areas for diverse higher functions, while taking metaphysics out of his new science of mind. Moreover, although he obviously placed too much emphasis on "tell-tale" skull features (mistakenly believing that the cranium faithfully reflects the features of underlying brain areas), he fully understood the strength of "convergent operations," conducting neuroanatomical, developmental, cross-species, gender-comparison, and brain-damage studies on both humans and animals in his attempts to unravel the mysteries of brain organization. Rather than looking upon Gall's "organology" as one of science's great mistakes, this book provides a fresh look at the man and his doctrine. The authors delve into his motives, what was known about the brain during the 1790s, and the cultural demands of his time. Gall is rightfully presented as an early-19th-century biologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and physician with an inquisitive mind and a challenging agenda--namely, how to account for species and individual differences in behavior. In this well-researched book, readers learn why, starting as a young physician in Vienna and continuing his life's work in Paris, he chose to study the mind and the brain, why he employed his various methods, why he relied so heavily on cranial features, and why he wrote what he did in his books. Frequently using Gall's own words, they show his impact in various domains, including his approach to the insane and criminals, before concluding with his final illness and more lasting legacy.
Outlines of Phrenology
Author | : Johann Gaspar Spurzheim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1827 |
Genre | : Phrenology |
ISBN | : NLS:B900063459 |
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Outlines of the Phrenological System of Drs G and S MS Notes
Author | : Franz Joseph GALL |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1819 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0026800600 |
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Examination of the Objections Made in Britain Against the Doctrines of Gall and Spurzheim
Author | : Johann Gaspar Spurzheim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1817 |
Genre | : Brain |
ISBN | : OXFORD:590934844 |
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British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind
Author | : Alan Richardson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2001-07-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781139428514 |
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In this provocative and original study, Alan Richardson examines an entire range of intellectual, cultural, and ideological points of contact between British Romantic literary writing and the pioneering brain science of the time. Richardson breaks new ground in two fields, revealing a significant and undervalued facet of British Romanticism while demonstrating the 'Romantic' character of early neuroscience. Crucial notions like the active mind, organicism, the unconscious, the fragmented subject, instinct and intuition, arising simultaneously within the literature and psychology of the era, take on unsuspected valences that transform conventional accounts of Romantic cultural history. Neglected issues like the corporeality of mind, the role of non-linguistic communication, and the peculiarly Romantic understanding of cultural universals are reopened in discussions that bring new light to bear on long-standing critical puzzles, from Coleridge's suppression of 'Kubla Khan', to Wordsworth's perplexing theory of poetic language, to Austen's interest in head injury.
Elements of Phrenology
Author | : George Combe |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Brain |
ISBN | : OXFORD:600033383 |
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System of Phrenology
Author | : George Combe |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1836 |
Genre | : Phrenology |
ISBN | : BSB:BSB10255021 |
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