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Viral Phrenology [PDF]

open access: yesViruses, 2021
We introduce Viral Phrenology, a new scheme for understanding the genomic composition of spherical viruses based on the locations of their structural protrusions. We used icosahedral point arrays to classify 135 distinct viral capsids collected from over
David P. Wilson, Danielle A. Roof
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Paul Bouts and the Short Life of Psychognomy in Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2022
Paul Bouts (1900–1999) was a Belgian pedagogue, a Roman Catholic priest, and the founder of Psychognomy, which is a personality diagnostic system combining phrenology and several related practices – typology, craniofacial measurements, physiognomy ...
Charles André
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Phrenology

open access: yesThe Encyclopedia of the History of Science, 2021
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Courtney Thompson
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Metaphors for the Masses: D.H. Lawrence on Stickiness, Insects and Democracy

open access: yesÉtudes Lawrenciennes, 2022
This article considers how Lawrence finds in the dynamics of derogatory imagery the means to express his alienation from the masses. From 1916 onwards, the term “masses” is often paired with the adjective “sticky” in Lawrence’s works, an addition that is
Shirley Bricout
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Beckett’s Dystopian Trilogy, Part I: The Irrelevance of Godot

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2021
The article concentrates on a variety of textual alterations introduced to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot either in the process of translation by the author or by the third parties.
Stanley Gontarski
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La représentation des Noirs dans le cinéma d’animation américain : entre pseudosciences et circulations intermédiatiques transnationales (1907‑1946)

open access: yesILCEA, 2021
From the birth of the cinema-attraction at the end of the 19th century to the public release of the Disney’s controversial animated feature-length Song of the South in 1946, the American animated film industry relentlessly depicted Black characters in a ...
Pierre Cras
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El esqueleto de la viuda Houet: Frenología y medicina legal en Francia durante la década de 1830

open access: yesCriminocorpus, 2015
This paper deals with the judicial identification of corpses in nineteenth-century France. The case of the widow Houet (1833) is particularly interesting for this purpose because two contrasting techniques of identification were employed: forensic ...
José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez
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An empirical, 21st century evaluation of phrenology

open access: yesCortex, 2018
Oiwi Parker Jones   +2 more
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Footprints of phineas gage: Historical beginnings on the origins of brain and behavior and the birth of cerebral localizationism

open access: yesArchives of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2016
The intellectual revolution led by ancient Greek philosophers and physicians witnessed the extraordinary evolution of the birth of neuroscience from speculations of cardiocentrism (Aristotelism) and encephalocentrism (Galenism). Later further development
Bhaskara P Shelley
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