Was phrenology a reform science? Towards a new generalization for phrenology

History of Science 42 (137):313-331 (2004)
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The authority of human nature: the Schädellehre of Franz Joseph Gall.John van Wyhe - 2002 - British Journal for the History of Science 35 (1):17-42.

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