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245	1	0	_aPseudo-science and society in 19th-century America /Arthur Wrobel, editor.
260			_aLexington : _bThe University Press of Kentucky, _c(c)2015.
300			_a1 online resource (254 pages)
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_tIntroduction / _rArthur Wrobel-- -- _tRobert H. Collyer's Technology of the Soul / _rTaylor Stoehr-- -- _t"Nervous Disease" and Electric Medicine / _rJohn L. Greenway-- -- _tHydropathy, or the Water-Cure / _rMarshall Scott Legan-- -- _tAndrew Jackson Davis and Spiritualism / _rRobert W. Delp-- -- _tPhrenology as Political Science / _rArthur Wrobel-- -- _tSexuality and the Pseudo-Sciences / _rHarold Aspiz-- -- _tWashington Irving and Homoeopathy / _rGeorge Hendrick-- -- _tSculpture and the Expressive Mechanism / _rCharles Thomas Walters-- -- _tMesmerism and the Birth of Psychology / _rRobert C. Fuller-- -- _tAfterword / _rArthur Wrobel.
520	0		_a"Progressive nineteenth-century Americans believed firmly that human perfection could be achieved with the aid of modern science. To many, the science of that turbulent age appeared to offer bright new answers to life's age-old questions. Such a climate, not surprisingly, fostered the growth of what we now view as "pseudo-sciences"--Disciplines delicately balancing a dubious inductive methodology with moral and spiritual concerns, disseminated with a combination of aggressive entrepreneurship and sheer entertainment. Such "sciences" as mesmerism, spiritualism, homoeopathy, hydropathy, and phrenology were warmly received not only by the uninformed and credulous but also by the respectable and educated. Rationalistic, egalitarian, and utilitarian, they struck familiar and reassuring chords in American ears and gave credence to the message of reformers that health and happiness are accessible to all. As the contributors to this volume show, the diffusion and practice of these pseudo-sciences intertwined with all the major medical, cultural, religious, and philosophical revolutions in nineteenth-century America. Hydropathy and particularly homoeopathy, for example, enjoyed sufficient respectability for a time to challenge orthodox medicine. The claims of mesmerists and spiritualists appeared to offer hope for a new moral social order. Daring flights of pseudo-scientific thought even ventured into such areas as art and human sexuality. And all the pseudo-sciences resonated with the communitarian and women's rights movements."--Publisher's description.
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650		0	_aPseudoscience _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aAlternative medicine _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aQuacks and quackery _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aWrobel, Arthur, _d1940-
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell