Description of a bibliographic listing of 383 items concerned with phrenology and available from the American Society for Information Science is given. Some research underway is mentioned.
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BakanD.The influence of phrenology on American psychology. J. Hist. Behav. Sci., 1966, 2, 200–220.
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CarlsonE. T.The influence of phrenology on early American psychiatric thought. Amer. J. Psychiat., 1958, 115, 535–538.
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ChambersH. V.Phrenology for the millions. Los Angeles: Sherbourne, 1968.
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CombeG.The constitution of man considered in relation to external objects. West-mead, Farnborough, Hants, Eng.: Gregg International, 1969. [Reprint of 1847 Edinburgh ed.]
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DaviesJ. D.Phrenology fad and science: a 19th-century American crusade. New Haven: Yale Univer. Press, 1955.
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FowlerO. S.FowlerL. N.Phrenology: a practical guide to your head. [With an introduction by A. E. Norman]New York: Chelsea House, 1969. [GallF. J.] Darstellung der neuen auf Untersuchungen der Verrichtungen des Gehirns Gegruendeten; Theorie der Physiognomik des Hn. Dr. Gall in Wien. (Zweite sehr vermehrte Auflage) Weimar im Verlage des Industrie: Copmtoire, 1801. [GallF. J.] Darstellung der neuen auf Untersuchungen der Verrichtungen des Gehirns Gegruendeten; Theorie der Physiognomik des Herrn Dr. Gall in Wien. (Dritte, sehr vermehrte Auflage) Wien: 1802.
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GallF. J.Gall's works [On the functions of the brain and of each of its parts: with observations on the possibility of determining the instincts, propensities, and talents, or the moral and intellectual dispositions of men and animals, by the configuration of the brain and head.] (Tr. LewisW.6 vols.) Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1835.
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GallF. J.SpurzheimJ. G.Recherches sur le système nerveux en gènéral, et sur celui du cerveau en particulier; Mémoire présenté a l'institute de France, le 14 mars 1808; Suivi d'observations sur le rapport qui en a été fait a cette compagnie par ses commissaires. Amsterdam: Bonset, 1967. [Reprint of 1809 ed.]
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GibbonC.The life of George Combe. Westmead, Farnborough, Hants, Eng.: Gregg International, 1969. [Reprint of 2 vol. 1878 ed.]
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HedderlyF.Phrenology, a study of mind. London: Fowler, 1970.
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Lanteri-LauraG.Histoire de la phrenologie: L'homme et son cerveau selon F. J. Gall. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1970.
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LeekS.Phrenology. New York: Macmillan, 1970.
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NacquartJ. B.Traité sur la nouvelle physiologie du cerveau, ou exposition de la doctrine de Gall sur la structure et les fonctions de cet organe, etc. Paris: Collin, 1808.
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SoneroD.Phrenology: secrets revealed by your face and head. New York: Tower, 1970.
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SpurzheimG.Observations sur la folie, etc. Paris: Treuttel et Wuertz, 1818.
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SpurzheimG.Essai sur les principes élémentaires de l'éducation. Paris: Treuttel et Wuertz, 1822.
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SpurzheimG.Phrenology, in connexion with the study of physiognomy. Part I. Characters. [Part II never appeared.] London: Treuttel, Wuertz, & Richter, 1826.
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WalshA. A. (Ed.) Introduction. In SpurzheimJ. C., Observations on the deranged manifestations of the mind, or insanity. Gainesville, Fla: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1970. [Reprint of the 1833 Boston ed.] (a)
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WalshA. A.Is phrenology foolish? A rejoinder. J. Hist. Behav. Sci., 1970, 6, 358–361. (b)
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WalshA. A.George Combe: a portrait of a heretofore generally unknown behaviorist. J. Hist. Behav. Sci., 1971, in press.
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YoungR. M.Mind, brain and adaptation in the nineteenth century: cerebral localization and its biological context from Gall to Ferrier. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon, 1970.
