یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-231) and index.
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
Groping in the dark: an introduction -- 1. The "scientific self": performative masculinity in the physical laboratory -- 2. Otherworldly subjects: mediums and spirits -- 3. A touch of the uncanny: sensing a material otherworld -- 4. The qualities of quartz: technology, inscriptions, and mechanizing vision -- 5. Fragments of spectral self: psychology, medicine, and aberrant souls -- 6. Teleplasmic mechanics: spirit scientists and vital technologies -- The Knot Unravelled: an epilogue.
بدون عنوان
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یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
"Beth A. Robertson resurrects the story of a group of men and women who sought to transform the séance into a laboratory of the spirits and a transnational empirical project. Her findings cast new light on how science, metaphysics, and the senses collided to inform gendered norms in the 1920s and '30s. She reveals a world inhabited, on one side, by psychical researchers who represented themselves as masters of the senses, untainted by the effeminized subjectivity of the body and, on the other, by mediums and ghostly subjects who could and did challenge the researchers' exclusive claims to scientific expertise and authority"--
ویراست دیگر از اثر در قالب دیگر رسانه
عنوان
Science of the seance.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Parapsychologists-- History-- 20th century.
موضوع مستند نشده
Parapsychology and science-- History-- 20th century.