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

ISBN-13: 9780791466797 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 276 str.

Elizabeth Green Musselman

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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 part in the sciences' movement to the center of modern life, and how a scientific community and a nation struggled their way into existence.