A Glance at Nineteenth Century Concept of PHRENOLOGY: Skull Bumps are a Mirror of Brain Faculties!

A Glance at Nineteenth Century Concept of PHRENOLOGY: Skull Bumps are a Mirror of Brain Faculties!
Author: Dr. Hakim. K. Saboowala
Publisher: Dr.Hakim Saboowala
Total Pages: 60
Release:
Genre: Medical
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A Glance at Nineteenth Century Concept of PHRENOLOGY: Skull Bumps are a Mirror of Brain Faculties! Phrenology was a nineteenth century endeavour to link personality traits with scalp morphology, which has been both influential and fiercely criticised, not least because of the assumption that scalp morphology can be informative of underlying brain function. Phrenology is the study of the shape of the head through the examination and measurement of the bumps on an individual's skull. Phrenology was one of the early biological theories of criminology and laid the foundation for the development of the biological school of criminology. Scientists discredited phrenology by the mid-1800s, although phrenology readings continued to have moments of popularity during the late 1800s and early 1900s. While phrenology was eventually shown to be pseudoscience, the idea that certain abilities might be linked to specific areas of the brain did have an influence on the field of neurology and the study of the localization of brain functions. Thus, an effort has been made in this E-Booklet to describe a few interesting aspects of Phrenology e. g. History, Applications, Methods, Prevalence in contemporary cultures along with plenty of Rare Historical Images of the Scriptures/Scholars of 19th Century for better understanding of this Novel Nineteenth Century endeavour to link Personality Traits with Scalp Morphology. …Dr. H. K. Saboowala. M.B.(Bom) .M.R.S.H.(London)

The dome of thought

The dome of thought
Author: William Hughes
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2022-03-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526143747

The dome of thought is the first study of phrenology based primarily on the popular – rather than medical – appreciation of this important and controversial pseudoscience. With detailed reference to the reports printed in popular newspapers from the early years of the nineteenth century to the fin de siècle, the book provides an unequalled insight into the Victorian public’s understanding of the techniques, assumptions and implications of defining a person’s character by way of the bumps on their skull. Highly relevant to the study of the many authors – Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, among them – whose fiction was informed by the imagery of phrenology, The dome of thought will prove an essential resource for anybody with an interest in the popular and literary culture of the nineteenth century, including literary scholars, medical historians and the general reader.

Gall, Spurzheim, and the Phrenological Movement

Gall, Spurzheim, and the Phrenological Movement
Author: Paul Eling
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000388387

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.

Phrenology Examined (1846)

Phrenology Examined (1846)
Author: Pierre Flourens
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2009-04
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781104363208

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Elements of Phrenology (1850)

Elements of Phrenology (1850)
Author: George Combe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2008-06-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781436833080

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Edgar Allan Poe in Context

Edgar Allan Poe in Context
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107009979

Spend the holidays with the Master of the Macabre

The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama

The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama
Author: Carolyn Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 110709593X

A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.

Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century

Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Robert Maxwell Young
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1990
Genre: Adaptability (Psychology)
ISBN: 0195063899

The author examines ideas of the nature and localization of the functions of the brain in the light of the philosophical constraints at work in the sciences of mind and brain in the 19th century. Particular attention is paid to phrenology, sensory-motor physiology and associationist psychology.