Stories
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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Physiognomy diagnosis chart, Chinese woodcut, 1817
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A physiognomy exemplifying what Lavater calls the 'homogeneity' of the face. Drawing, c. 1791.
Date: 1789?Reference: 29410i- Books
Case studies from 'The physiognomy of insanity' / by John Conolly.
Conolly, John, 1794-1866Date: 1976- Books
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Physiognomy made easy : scientific and anatomical character reading from the face / by Annie Isabella Oppenheim.
Oppenheim, Annie Isabella.Date: [between 1900 and 1910]- Books
About faces : physiognomy in nineteenth-century Britain / Sharrona Pearl.
Pearl, Sharrona.Date: 2010