Gall, Spurzheim, and the Phrenological Movement : Insights and Perspectives (Paperback)

Introduction

1. Gall, Spurzheim, and the Phrenological Movement

2. Phrenology: Scheherazade of etymology

3. Franz Joseph Gall on hemispheric symmetries

4. Matters of Sex and Gender in F. J. Gall’s Organology: A Primary Approach

5. Franz Joseph Gall on the "deaf and dumb" and the complexities of mind

6. Gall’s German enemies

7. An early description of Crouzon syndrome in a manuscript written in 1828 by Franz Joseph Gall

8. "My God, here is the skull of a murderer!" Physical appearance and violent crime

9. Johann Gaspar Spurzheim: The St. Paul of phrenology

10. The split between Gall and Spurzheim (1813?1818)

11. The reception of Gall’s organology in early-nineteenth-century Vilnius

12. Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus (1776?1827) on Gall’s craniognomic system, zoology, and comparative anatomy

13. Matter over mind? The rise and fall of phrenology in nineteenth-century France

14. Franz Joseph Gall came to Copenhagen, and for a brief moment the brain was the talk of the town

15. Gall’s Visit to The Netherlands

16. Georg Buchner: Anatomist of the animal brain and the human mind

17. Phrenology as clinical neuroscience: how American academic physicians in the 1820s and 1830s used phrenological theory to understand neurological symptoms

18. The promotion of phrenology in New South Wales, 1830?1850, at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts

19. The phrenological illustrations of George Cruickshank (1792?1878): A satire on phrenology or human nature?

20. Mark Twain’s phrenological experiment: Three renditions of his "small test"

21. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes on phrenology: Debunking a fad