James Cowles Prichard's Anthropology.Remaking the Science of Man in Early Nineteenth Century Britain.(Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine 52)

Name: James Cowles Prichard's Anthropology.Remaking the Science of Man in Early Nineteenth Century Britain.(Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine 52)
ISBN: 9789042004047

by Hannah Franziska Augstein, H. F. Augstein, Matthias Thieme

The Bristol doctor James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848) has enjoyed a glowing reputation. Late Victorians regarded him as the founder of British anthropology and, in the twentieth century, he has been…