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James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge
A Life of Science during the Age of Improvement
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eBook - PDF
James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge
A Life of Science during the Age of Improvement
About this book
Margaret M. Crump offers the first thorough biography of British scientist and physician James Cowles Prichard (1786ā1848), an intellectual giant in the developing human sciences, a pioneering psychiatric theorist, and Europe's leading anthropologist during the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Apologia
- 1. Time and Place
- 2. āA Studious Turn of Mindā
- 3. MD, Edin
- 4. Citizen, Husband, Gentleman, Physician, and Scientist
- 5. āSharpening Their Wits upon the Carcasses of the Poorā
- 6. The Single Origin and Unity of Humankind
- 7. Epidemics, History, and Mythology
- 8. Nervous Diseases
- 9. āIrksome Thingsā
- 10. The Early Red Lodge Years
- 11. Life and Reputation at the Red Lodge
- 12. New Scientists, New Organizations, New Ideas
- 13. Christian Humanitarian Anthropology
- 14. From the Red Lodge to Asylumdom
- 15. Public Service and Private Misery
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index