Blockheads, roundheads, pointy heads:. Intellectual disability and the brain before modern medicine

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 165-183

  Goodey, C F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BRAIN; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REVIEW; SKULL; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ANATOMY; BRAIN; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL RETARDATION; NEUROLOGY; PHRENOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SKULL;

EID: 19844371708     PISSN: 00225061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.20081     Document Type: Review

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