Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain

by Elizabeth Green Musselman

Book Overview

Nervous Conditions explores the role of the body in the development of modern science, challenging the myth that modern science is built on a bedrock of objectivity and confident empiricism. In this fascinating look into the private world of British natural philosophers--including John Dalton, Lord Kelvin, Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and many others--Elizabeth Green Musselman shows how the internal workings of their bodies played an important...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791466795
• ISBN13: 9780791466797
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"