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Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America
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Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America.
Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These oncepopular but nowdiscredited disciplines were based on a deceptively simple premise: that facial features or skull shape could reveal a person’s intelligence, charact...
Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These oncepopular but nowdiscredited disciplines were based on a deceptively simple premise: that facial features or skull shape could reveal a person’s intelligence, charact...