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An account of the medical world in eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death.
"Volume 1 ... contains the complete text of Guy's Inventarium; volume 2 2will contain a commentary on the text"--P. viii.
"Volume 1 ... contains the complete text of Guy's Inventarium; volume 2 will contain a commentary on the text"--P. viii.
Written in honor of John E. Murdoch's seventieth birthday, the essays collected here focus on the interpretation of ancient and scientific texts not just as isolated intellectual productions but as responses to particular settings or contexts.
Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skeptics dismissed these experiences as delusions, a new kind of investigator emerged to seek the science behind such phenomena. With new technologies like the telegraph collapsing the boundaries of time and space, an explanation seemed within reach. As Americans took up psychical experiments in their homes, the boundaries of the mind began to waver. Common Phantoms brings these experiments back to life while modeling a new approach to the history of psychology and the mind sciences. Drawing on previously untapped archives of participant-reported dat...