Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling

Author/Contributor(s):	Fretwell, Erica
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	10/16/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Erica Fretwell examines how psychophysics--a nineteenth-century scientific movement originating in Germany dedicated to the empirical study of sensory experience--became central to the process of creating human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability in nineteenth-century America.