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  1. Maine de Biran and Gall’s phrenology: the origins of a debate about the localization of mental faculties.Marco Piazza - 2020 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (5):866-884.
    In March 1808 at the Institut de France, the German physician Franz Joseph Gall, together with his assistant Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, unveiled his rather controversial doctr...
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  • Science and self-assessment: phrenological charts 1840–1940.Fenneke Sysling - 2018 - British Journal for the History of Science 51 (2):261-280.
    This paper looks at phrenological charts as mediators of scientific knowledge to individual clients who used them as a means of self-assessment. Phrenologists propagated the idea that the human mind could be categorized into different mental faculties, with each particular faculty represented in a different area of the brain and by bumps on the head. In the US and the UK popular phrenologists examined individual clients for a fee. Drawing on a collection of phrenological charts completed for individual clients, this (...)
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