Mesmerized

Mesmerized
Author: Alison Winter
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1998-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226902197

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Invitation to the Seance1: Discovery of the Island of Mesmeria 2: Animal Magnetism Comes to London 3: Experimental Subjects as Scientific Instruments 4: Carnival, Chapel, and Pantomime 5: The Peripatetic Power of the "New Science" 6: Consultations, Conversaziones, and Institutions 7: The Invention of Anesthesia and the Redefinition of Pain 8: Colonizing Sensations in Victorian India9: Emanations from the Sickroom 10: The Mesmeric Cure of Souls 11: Expertise, Common Sense, and the Territories of Science 12: The Social Body and the Invention of Consensus Conclusion: The Day after the Feast Notes Bibliography Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Poems

Poems
Author: John Collinson (Rector of Gateshead, Durham.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1849
Genre:
ISBN: