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1927 CE

#7698

Bibliographie des Selbstmords mit textlichen Einführungen zu Jedem Kapitel.

Approaches the literature of suicide from many points of view including philosophical, medical, psychological, religious, literary, and artistic, as well as topics like family suicide, mass suicide and euthanasia, fro…

1961 CE

#9648

Cerebral organization and behavior: The split brain behaves in many respects like two separate brains, providing new research possibilities.

Sperry and colleagues, including Michael Gazzaniga, conducted extensive experiments on an epileptic patient who had had his corpus collosum, the "bridge" between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, split so t…

1928 CE

#10118

Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation.

Mead based her study primarily on adolescent girls on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. The book detailed the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorized that culture ha…

1904 CE

#148

Galeni De temperamentis libri III recensuit Georgius Helmreich.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1952 CE

#13527

Hypnodontics: Hypnosis in dentistry.

"Accepted by the American Dental Association."

1876 CE

#174

L’uomo delinquente, studiato in rapporto alla antropologia, alla medicina legale ed alle discipline carcerarie.

Lombroso inaugurated the doctrine of a “criminal type”. His systematic studies showed that in general the criminal population exhibits a higher percentage of physical, nervous and mental anomalies than the…

1894 CE

#187

Man and woman.

A study of the constitutional differences between man and woman.

2002 CE

#10194

Meaning, medicine and the "placebo effect".

"Moerman places the words "Placebo effect" in quotations because he believes that the placebo effect should be redefined. A placebo, he explains is inert. It has no causal effect. A more appropriate definition of the …

1986 CE

#197.2

Misur d’uomo. Strumenti, teorie e pratiche dell’antropometria e della psicologia sperimentale tra ‘800 e ‘900.

Extensively annotated and illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of books and instruments documenting the history of measuring techniques in physical anthropology and experimental psychology in the 18th and 19th centu…

1871 CE

#172

Primitive culture: Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, art, and custom. 2 vols.

The standard work on primitive religion for many years. Tylor approached his subject from the point of view of psychology, exploring the nature of belief in spirits, omens, magic, etc. His work has important ties with…

1951 CE

#9732

Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a plains Indian.

1981 CE

#13068

The mismeasure of man.

A critique of statistical methods and cultural motivations underlying biological determinism. "Gould argues that the primary assumption underlying biological determinism is that, “worth can be assigned to indivi…

1938 CE

#13291

The peyote cult.

The history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its physiological action and the various ethnological, psychological and historical questions involved in its diffusion.

1938 CE

#1532

The responses of single optic nerve fibers of the vertebrate eye to illumination of the retina.

Hartline continued and extended the work initiated by Adrian and Matthews on electrical discharges from the optic nerve. See also his later papers In the same journal, 1940, 130, 690-711. Reprinted with historical int…

1772 CE

#154

Von der Physiognomik.

Lavater was the last of the descriptive physiognomists. He expanded the above work into Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe, 1775-78. This was translated into English …

1904 CE

#4982

Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens.

An exposition of psychoanalytic theory for a popular audience. Includes description and examples of the well-known “Freudian slip”. English translation, London, 1914.