Erica Fretwell examines how psychophysics-a nineteenth-century scientific movement originating in Germany dedicated to the empirical study of Sensory experience-became central to the process of creating human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability in nineteenth-century America.
Illustrations: 26 illustrations.
Erica Fretwell examines how psychophysics-a nineteenth-century scientific movement originating in Germany dedicated to the empirical study of Sensory experience-became central to the process of creating human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability in nineteenth-century America