CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The End of the Soul

1.  The Society of Mutual Autopsy and the Liturgy of Death

2.  Evangelical Atheism and the Rise of French Anthropology

3.  Scientific Materialism and the Public Response

4.  Careers in Anthropology and the Bertillon Family

5.  No Soul, No Morality: Vacher de Lapouge

6.  Body and Soul: Léonce Manouvrier and the Disappearing Numbers

7.  The Leftist Critique of Determinist Science

8.  Coda

Conclusion

 

 

 

Notes

Bibliography

Index