The science of skulls from a global perspective: James Poskett: Materials of the mind: phrenology, race, and the global history of science 1815–1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019, 373 pp, $45.00 HB

Metascience 29 (3):421-423 (2020)
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