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S. Redman. Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums. Harvard University Press, 2016. $29.99 (hardcover).
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 4, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Phil Loring Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

R. M. Brain. The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin ‐de‐Siècle Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. 384 pp. $30.00 (paper).
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 4, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Lanzoni Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Katja Guenther. Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines. University of Chicago, 2015.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 4, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Charles G. Gross Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Catherine Gidney. Tending the Student Body: Youth, Health, and the Modern University. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. 294 pp. $34.95 (paper). ISBN ‐13: 978‐1‐442‐61596‐0.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 4, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jason Ellis Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Kristoffer Kropp. A Historical Account of Danish Sociology: A Troubled Sociology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 131 pp. $67.50 (hardcover). ISBN ‐13: 978‐1‐137‐40341‐4.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 4, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthias Duller Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Bernadette Baker and William James. Sciences of Mind, and Anti ‐Imperial Discourses. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 436 pp. $33.99. ISBN: 110755487X.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 4, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Paul Croce Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Mental association: testing individual differences before binet
This paper challenges the historiographical discontinuity established between earlier “anthropometric testing” and the arrival of “psychological testing” with Binet and Simon's intelligence test in 1905. After some conceptual clarifications, it deals with “word association”: a kind of psychological experimentation and testing which became popular over the last two decades of the 19th century. First Galton's exploration are presented, followed by experiments performed at the Leipzig laboratory by Trautscholdt, and then Cattell and Bryant's collective testing. Additionally, I document the use of this method for t...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - December 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: ANNETTE M ÜLBERGER Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Beyond fields, networks, and fame: lawrence krader as an “outsider” intellectual
This paper investigates the intellectual biography of the American philosopher and anthropologist Lawrence Krader (1919–1998) as a contribution to the sociology of intellectuals and history of ideas. We trace Krader's career trajectory to his intellectual self‐concept, his scholarly and political worldviews, and his financial independence. Krader entertained a self‐concept of a lone pioneer that led him to reject the competition for attention as highlighted in the current literature, dominated as it is by an emphasis on field, habitus, the accumulation and reproduction of power, and symbolic capital. His self‐conce...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - December 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: SABINE SANDER, CYRIL LEVITT, NEIL MCMAUGHLIN Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

The rhetorical use of random sampling: crafting and communicating the public image of polls as a science (1935 –1948)
The scientific pollsters (Archibald Crossley, George H. Gallup, and Elmo Roper) emerged onto the American news media scene in 1935. Much of what they did in the following years (1935–1948) was to promote both the political and scientific legitimacy of their enterprise. They sought to be recognized as the sole legitimate producers of public opinion. In this essay I examine the, mostly overlooked, rhetorical work deployed by the pollsters to publicize the scientific credentials of their polling activities, and the central role the concept of sampling has had in that pursuit. First, they distanced themselves from the failed...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - December 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: DOMINIC LUSINCHI Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Issue Information ‐TOC
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - December 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information ‐TOC Source Type: research

Back to the origins of the repudiation of wundt: oswald k Ülpe and richard avenarius
This essay provides a fresh account of the break between Oswald Külpe and his master Wilhelm Wundt. Kurt Danziger's reconstruction of the “repudiation” of Wundt, which has become the canon for this significant episode of history of psychology, focused on the supposed influence of Ernst Mach on this set of events, overshadowing the other exponent of Empiriocriticism: Richard Avenarius. Analyzing archival documents and examining anew the primary sources, the paper shows that Avenarius was himself a member of Wundt's circle, and that his “repudiation” of the master paved the way for Külpe. The essay points out the o...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - November 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: CHIARA RUSSO KRAUSS Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Citation: 2016 cheiron book prize
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Citation: 2016 Cheiron Book Prize Source Type: research

News and notes —fall 2016
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: News and Notes Source Type: research

Forum for the history of human sciences: reports for jhbs august 2016
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jacy L. Young Tags: Miscellaneous Source Type: research

Report of the 48th annual meeting of cheiron: the international society for the history of the behavioral and social sciences meeting jointly with european society for the history of human sciences (eshhs)
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: David K. Robinson Tags: Miscellaneous Source Type: research