Carla Bittel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1222465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carla Bittel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carla |
| FAMILY NAME | Bittel |
| SIGNATURE | BITTEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola Marymount University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
James Poskett, Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science 1815–1920
In Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920, James Poskett sets out to change the way we think about the history of science. He has written a compelling argument, using the circulation of phrenology around the globe and the construction of race in the long nineteenth century to contend that ‘all good history of science must be grounded in global history’ (p. 252). He maintains that national histories a…
Cranial Compatibility: Phrenology, Measurement, and Marriage Assessment
This essay examines phrenological tools as instruments of matchmaking and focuses on the personal ad as a site for producing and exchanging knowledge about individuals. It shows how cranial measurement produced character profiles for the purpose of judging suitable marriage partners and how users integrated those profiles into personal advertisements published in the Water-Cure Journal. A popular but contested science of the mind, phrenology main…
The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America (review)
Reviewed by: The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America Carla Bittel Lara Freidenfelds. The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 242 pp. Ill. $60.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-9245-7, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9245-5). In the early twentieth century, the New Woman represented aspirations of modern middle-class femininity; she seemed poised, confident, independent, and active,…
Science, Suffrage, and Experimentation: Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Controversy over Vivisection in Late Nineteenth-Century America
This article examines the medical activism of the New York physician Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906), to illustrate the problems of gender and science at the center of the vivisection debate in late nineteenth-century America. In the post–Civil War era, individuals both inside and outside the medical community considered vivisection to be a controversial practice. Physicians divided over the value of live animal experimentation, while reformers an…
Cranial Compatibility: Phrenology, Measurement, and Marriage Assessment
This essay examines phrenological tools as instruments of matchmaking and focuses on the personal ad as a site for producing and exchanging knowledge about individuals. It shows how cranial measurement produced character profiles for the purpose of judging suitable marriage partners and how users integrated those profiles into personal advertisements published in the Water-Cure Journal. A popular but contested science of the mind, phrenology main…
Science, Suffrage, and Experimentation: Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Controversy over Vivisection in Late Nineteenth-Century America
This article examines the medical activism of the New York physician Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906), to illustrate the problems of gender and science at the center of the vivisection debate in late nineteenth-century America. In the post–Civil War era, individuals both inside and outside the medical community considered vivisection to be a controversial practice. Physicians divided over the value of live animal experimentation, while reformers an…
The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America (review)
Reviewed by: The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America Carla Bittel Lara Freidenfelds. The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 242 pp. Ill. $60.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8018-9245-7, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9245-5). In the early twentieth century, the New Woman represented aspirations of modern middle-class femininity; she seemed poised, confident, independent, and active,…
James Poskett, Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science 1815–1920
In Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920, James Poskett sets out to change the way we think about the history of science. He has written a compelling argument, using the circulation of phrenology around the globe and the construction of race in the long nineteenth century to contend that ‘all good history of science must be grounded in global history’ (p. 252). He maintains that national histories a…
Cranial Compatibility: Phrenology, Measurement, and Marriage Assessment
This essay examines phrenological tools as instruments of matchmaking and focuses on the personal ad as a site for producing and exchanging knowledge about individuals. It shows how cranial measurement produced character profiles for the purpose of judging suitable marriage partners and how users integrated those profiles into personal advertisements published in the Water-Cure Journal. A popular but contested science of the mind, phrenology main…
Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Phrenology (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)