Michael Shortland
Biographic Data
| ID | 306406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Shortland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Shortland |
| SIGNATURE | SHORTLAND M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Power and knowledge: Astrology, physiognomics, and medicine under the roman empire; and Face value: Physiognomical thought and the legible body in Marivaux, Lavater, Balzac, Gautier, and Zola
Michel Serres, passe-partout
Michel Serres with Bruno Latour, Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. Pp. 204. ISBN 0-472-09548-X, £31.50, $44.50 (hardback); 0-472-06548-3, no price given (paperback). Michel Serres (ed.), A History of Scientific Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. Pp. viii+760. ISBN 0-631-17739-6. £75.00, $100.00. Michel Serres is one of the best-known philosopher-critics in France, and his name is likely to …
A Miller’s Tale
Einstein Lived Here. Abraham Pais
Science and Nature: Essays in the History of the Environmental Sciences
Darkness Visible: Underground Culture in the Golden Age of Geology
La science pour tous: Sur la vulgarisation scientifique en France de 1850 a 1914 . Bruno Beguet
Siting a hazardous waste facility: The tangled web of risk communication
In 1990, the Australian government tried to establish a national hazardous waste incinerator in rural New South Wales. This paper considers the debates over the risks associated with hazardous waste incineration that emerged and the symbolic portrayal of technology implicit in these debates. Risk communications associated with technologies convey a message about how technological systems are shaped, implemented and operated. In this case, governm…
Close Encounters? Science and Science Fiction
First Page
Establishing the new science: The experience of the royal society
Wonder stories in Alienland
John Ray, naturalist: His life and works
The communist party and Soviet science
The advancement of science, and its burdens
(1988). The advancement of science, and its burdens. History of European Ideas: Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 609-610
Essay Review: Darwinian Structures: Darwinism and Divinity: Essays on Evolution and Religious Belief
Moving speeches: Language and elocution in eighteenth-century Britain
(1987). Moving speeches: Language and elocution in eighteenth-century Britain. History of European Ideas: Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 639-653
Unnatural Acts: Art and Passion on the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Stage
The so-called ‘theatrical revolution’ of the mid-eighteenth-century is generally hailed as the turning point in the history of English acting patterns, writing styles and playhouse management. As with any revolution, its origins and development have been described by leading participants from the viewpoint of the victor. It is a story of the pioneering labours of such figures as David Garrick and Charles Macklin rendering new performances, of old…
Screen Memories: Towards a History of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in the Movies
In his famous biography, Ernest Jones turns aside from his central theme at one point to relate a curious episode involving psychoanalysis and Hollywood, in the persons of Freud and the well-known film producer Samuel Goldwyn. Like many others in the film industry, Goldwyn was fascinated with the challenge of exploiting the association between psychoanalysis and sex on screen, but although he approached ‘the greatest love specialist in the world’…
Courting the Cerebellum: Early Organological and Phrenological Views of Sexuality
Although phrenology has begun to receive serious attention as a doctrine of mind, as popular science, as part of medical history, as a vehicle for social and ideological interests, and as an important component of American and European (especially British) culture in the early nineteenth century, there is one aspect of it which has evaded the eye of contemporary historians.’ This is the place within phrenology of the understanding of human sexual…
Essay Review: Bodies of History: Some Problems and Perspectives: A History of Women's Bodies, the Body and Society, Michel Foucault
Skin deep: Barthes, Lavater and the legible body
This article considers some of the issues raised by physiognomy in the work of its purported founder Johann Caspar Lavater and in the criticism of Roland Barthes. The major features of the discourse of physiognomy are considered in relation to aesthetics and literaryand artistic portraiture, then explored through an analysis of Barthes' Empire of Signs. The result is to bring to light a neglected and misunderstood doctrine of characterology and, …
Essay Review: Limits to Growth: The Mismeasure of Man
Skin deep: Barthes, Lavater and the legible body
This article considers some of the issues raised by physiognomy in the work of its purported founder Johann Caspar Lavater and in the criticism of Roland Barthes. The major features of the discourse of physiognomy are considered in relation to aesthetics and literaryand artistic portraiture, then explored through an analysis of Barthes' Empire of Signs. The result is to bring to light a neglected and misunderstood doctrine of characterology and, …
Darkness Visible: Underground Culture in the Golden Age of Geology
Michel Serres, passe-partout
Michel Serres with Bruno Latour, Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. Pp. 204. ISBN 0-472-09548-X, £31.50, $44.50 (hardback); 0-472-06548-3, no price given (paperback). Michel Serres (ed.), A History of Scientific Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. Pp. viii+760. ISBN 0-631-17739-6. £75.00, $100.00. Michel Serres is one of the best-known philosopher-critics in France, and his name is likely to …
Courting the Cerebellum: Early Organological and Phrenological Views of Sexuality
Although phrenology has begun to receive serious attention as a doctrine of mind, as popular science, as part of medical history, as a vehicle for social and ideological interests, and as an important component of American and European (especially British) culture in the early nineteenth century, there is one aspect of it which has evaded the eye of contemporary historians.’ This is the place within phrenology of the understanding of human sexual…
Einstein Lived Here. Abraham Pais
Essay Review: Darwinian Structures: Darwinism and Divinity: Essays on Evolution and Religious Belief
Moving speeches: Language and elocution in eighteenth-century Britain
(1987). Moving speeches: Language and elocution in eighteenth-century Britain. History of European Ideas: Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 639-653
Essay Review: Limits to Growth: The Mismeasure of Man
Skin deep: Barthes, Lavater and the legible body
This article considers some of the issues raised by physiognomy in the work of its purported founder Johann Caspar Lavater and in the criticism of Roland Barthes. The major features of the discourse of physiognomy are considered in relation to aesthetics and literaryand artistic portraiture, then explored through an analysis of Barthes' Empire of Signs. The result is to bring to light a neglected and misunderstood doctrine of characterology and, …
Essay Review: Bodies of History: Some Problems and Perspectives: A History of Women's Bodies, the Body and Society, Michel Foucault
Essay Review: Darwinian Structures: Darwinism and Divinity: Essays on Evolution and Religious Belief
Moving speeches: Language and elocution in eighteenth-century Britain
(1987). Moving speeches: Language and elocution in eighteenth-century Britain. History of European Ideas: Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 639-653
Unnatural Acts: Art and Passion on the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Stage
The so-called ‘theatrical revolution’ of the mid-eighteenth-century is generally hailed as the turning point in the history of English acting patterns, writing styles and playhouse management. As with any revolution, its origins and development have been described by leading participants from the viewpoint of the victor. It is a story of the pioneering labours of such figures as David Garrick and Charles Macklin rendering new performances, of old…
Screen Memories: Towards a History of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in the Movies
In his famous biography, Ernest Jones turns aside from his central theme at one point to relate a curious episode involving psychoanalysis and Hollywood, in the persons of Freud and the well-known film producer Samuel Goldwyn. Like many others in the film industry, Goldwyn was fascinated with the challenge of exploiting the association between psychoanalysis and sex on screen, but although he approached ‘the greatest love specialist in the world’…
Courting the Cerebellum: Early Organological and Phrenological Views of Sexuality
Although phrenology has begun to receive serious attention as a doctrine of mind, as popular science, as part of medical history, as a vehicle for social and ideological interests, and as an important component of American and European (especially British) culture in the early nineteenth century, there is one aspect of it which has evaded the eye of contemporary historians.’ This is the place within phrenology of the understanding of human sexual…
Wonder stories in Alienland
John Ray, naturalist: His life and works
The communist party and Soviet science
The advancement of science, and its burdens
(1988). The advancement of science, and its burdens. History of European Ideas: Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 609-610
Close Encounters? Science and Science Fiction
First Page
Establishing the new science: The experience of the royal society
Siting a hazardous waste facility: The tangled web of risk communication
In 1990, the Australian government tried to establish a national hazardous waste incinerator in rural New South Wales. This paper considers the debates over the risks associated with hazardous waste incineration that emerged and the symbolic portrayal of technology implicit in these debates. Risk communications associated with technologies convey a message about how technological systems are shaped, implemented and operated. In this case, governm…
La science pour tous: Sur la vulgarisation scientifique en France de 1850 a 1914 . Bruno Beguet
Darkness Visible: Underground Culture in the Golden Age of Geology
Science and Nature: Essays in the History of the Environmental Sciences
A Miller’s Tale
Einstein Lived Here. Abraham Pais
Power and knowledge: Astrology, physiognomics, and medicine under the roman empire; and Face value: Physiognomical thought and the legible body in Marivaux, Lavater, Balzac, Gautier, and Zola
Michel Serres, passe-partout
Michel Serres with Bruno Latour, Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. Pp. 204. ISBN 0-472-09548-X, £31.50, $44.50 (hardback); 0-472-06548-3, no price given (paperback). Michel Serres (ed.), A History of Scientific Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. Pp. viii+760. ISBN 0-631-17739-6. £75.00, $100.00. Michel Serres is one of the best-known philosopher-critics in France, and his name is likely to …
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