Brains of Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11924070 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jack Morrell (University of Bradford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 735-745 |
| Publication date | 1986-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Studies of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-3127 • E-ISSN: 1460-3659 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/030631286016004010 |
| OpenAlex | W2011872407 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
The historiography of Victorian life sciences has been badly distorted by the emphasis placed on Charles Darwin. It is now a full-time job keeping up with the Darwin industry. Of course, one welcomes warmly the detailed work on the notebooks and the publication of the first volume of the superbly-edited collected letters, not least because they provide valuable material for the social historian. ' Yet the very size and energy of the Darwin industry can too easily infect one with precursoritis and whiggism: in spite of some good recent work, it is still difficult to escape totally from seeing Robert Chambers's Vestiges of 1844 in Darwinian terms.2 In a similar way, it is tempting to dismiss phrenology as an aberration, popular among the lower orders, which was deservedly relegated to the scientific demi-monde. Yet publication figures give one pause: by 1860, George Combe's phrenology textbook, the Constitution of Man, had sold 100,000 copies in Britain; by 1900, Darwin's Origin a mere 50,000. Like the
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Charles darwin · Constitution · Darwin (ADL · Darwinism · Epistemology · George (robot · Historiography · Phrenology · Political science · Sociology · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Classics · Computer Science · History · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
Phrenological knowledge and the social structure of early nineteenth-century Edinburgh
Waiting for Gramsci
"Hegemony" and the Amateur Tradition in British Science
Wissenschaft in Worstedopolis
The Concept of 'Egemonia' in the Thought of Antonio Gramsci
Patrician Society, Plebeian Culture
History of Science and its Sociological Reconstructions
The Parisian Sans-Culottes and the French Revolution, 1793-4
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |