Repositioning Victorian sciences : shifting centres in nineteenth-century scientific thinking / edited by David Clifford [and others].
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Anthem Press, 2006Description: 1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781843317517 (ebook)
- 509.41/09034 22
- Q127.G4 R47 2006
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1. Margins and centres / Alex Warwick -- 2. 'Speakers concerning the Earth' : Ruskin's geology after 1860 / Caroline Trowbridge -- 3. Swimming at the edges of scientific respectability : sea serpents in the Victorian era / Sherrie Lyons -- 4. 'The drugs, the blister and the lancet are all laid aside' : hydropathy and medical orthodoxy in Scotland, 1840-1900 / Alastair Durie -- 5. Anna Kingsford : scientist and sorceress / Alison Butler -- 6. A science for one or a science for all? : physiognomy, self-help, and the practical benefits of science / Lucy Hartley -- 7. 'Supposed differences' : Lydia Becker and Victorian women's participation in the BAAS / Susan David Bernstein.
An intriguing look at the marginal sciences of the nineteenth century and their influence on the culture of the period.
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