Sensory Experiments

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.

Erica Fretwell examineaza modul in care psihofizica - o miscare stiintifica din secolul al XIX-lea originara din Germania dedicata studiului empiric al experientei senzoriale - a devenit centrala in procesul de creare a diferentei umane de-a lungul liniilor de rasa, gen si abilitate in America secolului al XIX-lea.