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

Contents

Contents Preface ix Part I Embodied Epistemology One The Nervous Man of Science 3 Two The Social Hierarchy of Subjectivity 30 Part II The Nervous Conditions Three Provincialism and Color Blindness 55 Four Mental Governance and Hemiopsy 101 Five Rational Faith and Hallucination 146 Six Conclusion 189 Notes 199 Bibliography 229 Index 267 vii ...