Charles Joseph Heath, F.R.C.S.—(1856–1934)

Joseph Heath The structure of hip consumerism

Critics of mass culture often identify 1950s-style status competition as one of the central forces driving consumerism. Thomas Frank has challenged this view, arguing that countercultural rebellion now provides the primary source of consumerism in our society, and that ‘cool’ has become its central ideological expression. This paper provides a rearticulation and defense of Frank’s thesis, first...

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Visions and Re-Visions of Charles Joseph Minard

Charles Joseph Minard is most widely known for a single work-his poignant flowmap depiction ofthe fate ofNapoleon's GrandArmy in the disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. In fact, Minard was a true pioneer in thematic cartography and in statistical graphics; he developed many novel graphic forms to depict data, always with the goal to let the data "speak to the eyes." This article reviews Minard...

Sympathetic science: Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, and the passions of Victorian naturalists.

This essay examines the complex tangle of emotional and scientific attachments that linked Darwin and botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker. Analyzing their roles as husbands, fathers, and novel readers demonstrates that possessing and expressing sympathy was as important for Victorian naturalists as it was for Victorian husbands. Sympathy was a scientific skill that Victorian naturalists regarded as n...

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as good as his little sister Maria. He does nothing but play marbles. I can't even send him to the store because he never brings home what I tell him to." The general tenor of this dissertation was repeated every time I saw her in the future. I devoted my first lesson to letting Joseph read the story of The Little Red Hen, pp. 1-9, Winston Primer. He read with great difficulty, spelling the wor...