William Lawrence and the Organ of Mind

William Lawrence and the Organ of Mind explores the historical origins and ideological valence of the conceptualisation of thought and mind as functions of the brain in early nineteenth-century Britain. Taking as its starting point the controversy provoked by Lawrence’s Lectures on Physiology,...

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Main Author:	Price, Elfed Huw
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	UCL Press 2025
Subjects:	history of science;Britain;neuroscience;philosophy;immortality;mind;William Lawrence;brain;phrenology;materialism;vitalism;mortalism;consciousness;theology;medicine;Victorian naturalism;Christian mortalist tradition;Lawrences Lectures;thought;ideological valence;historical origins thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
Online Access:	https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98620
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