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About the Episode
In the 9th instalment of our History Lessons, Daisy talks to Alice and Lucy about Harriet Martineau, an English social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist, focusing on race relations within much of her published material.
Sources
Hypnosis: Developments in Research and New Perspectives. Edited by Erika Fromm and Ronald E. Shore, 2007
Letters on Mesmerism. Compiled by Harriet Martinau, 1919
- Psychology’s History of Being Mesmerized. Psych Central. Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S
- The Zoist Journal (Vols 1-13 available on Google Books) 1844-1856
- Hypnosis in History, hypnosis.edu (featured almost entirely because I did a short quiz and they gave me a certificate)
- Numerous “mesmerism” illustrations, Wellcome Collection
- Was this hypnotic health craze an elaborate hoax or a medical breakthrough? National Geographic, Antonio Fernandez, March 2019
- A Plain and Rational Account of the Nature and Effects of Animal Magnetism: In a Series of letters. With Notes and an Appendix. Pearson, John – W. and J. Stratford, 1790.
- Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen, 2017. Workman Publishing
- Martineau Society biography
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