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Profiling and genetic destiny.

Animal magnetism in Spanish medicine (1786-1860).

Scientist's study of brain genes sparks a backlash; Dr. Lahn connects evolution in some groups to IQ; debate on race and DNA; Speculating is dangerous.

[At the centre of all gazes: an approach to the historiography of phrenology].

George Combe--phrenologist, philosopher, psychologist (1788-1858).

Phrenology and the neurosciences: contributions of F. J. Gall and J. G. Spurzheim.

Neuroimaging: revolutionary research tool or a post-modern phrenology?

We are today witnessing the creation of a new phrenology with these wildly exaggerated claims.

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

The philosophy of decapitation: analysis, biomedical reform, and devolution in London's body politic, 1830-1850.

Was phrenology a reform science? Towards a new generalization for phrenology.

Musical skills and neural functions. The legacy of the brains of musicians.

Skulls, brains, and memorial culture: on cerebral biographies of scientists in the nineteenth century.

Beyond phrenology, at last.

Cellular phrenology.

Hat size, brain size, intelligence, and dementia: what morphometry can tell us about brain function and disease.

The authority of human nature: the Schädellehre of Franz Joseph Gall.

[Phrenology--another point of view].

John Martyn Harlow: "Obscure country physician"?

[Understanding the function of brain--a historical perspective].