Temple Bar: Index of Victorian Middle-Class Thought

Conquest of the mind. Phrenology and Victorian social thought

or three subsequent generations. His evidence is in two parts: that gleaned from a study of the life of Aristotle and of the school that he founded; and that derived from an analysis of four books of the Metaphysics (zeta, eta, lambda and theta). The second is the larger part, and in it the author contends that lecture courses, simple and complex can be identified. This is a revolutionary view,...

theoretical understanding of the middle class

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Prostitution and Victorian society: women, class, and state

happened in France, where the peasant economy encouraged the retention of cautious and restrictive attitudes to establishing new economic units. Flandrin speculates interestingly to what extent this atmosphere led to extensive use of contraception (i.e. coitus interruptus) in France long before it became common in England. Flandrin makes extensive use of Counter-Reformation conduct books to hig...

Cheryl Temple

The genetics of middle-age spread in middle-class males.

This study provides findings to assist in identifying factors that contribute to the current clinical and public health debate of the obesity epidemic. The study examined the genetics of adult-onset weight change in middle-aged male-male twins controlling for weight in early adulthood, lifetime history of tobacco use and alcohol dependence, and aimed to estimate the proportion of genetic factor...