Man and Woman (eBook)

A Study of Secondary and Tertiary Sexual Characters

Havelock Ellis (Autor)

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2013 | 8. Auflage
478 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4832-2147-2 (ISBN)

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Man and Woman: A Study of Secondary and Tertiary Sexual Characters, Eight Edition Revised covers the developments of biological investigation of male and female sexual characteristics. This 16-chapter book specifically considers the radical and essential characters of men and women uninfluenced by external modifying conditions. This book starts with an introduction to the boundary between secondary and tertiary sexual characters. The subsequent chapters examine some of the measurable sex differences in terms of metabolism, the viscera, the growth and body proportions, and the senses. Other chapters describe the anatomical distinction between sexes, including the pelvis and the head. A chapter highlights the phenomena of menstruation of women. The discussion then shifts to tertiary sexual character determinants, such as motion, unconscious state, emotion, and artistic and intellectual impulse. The final chapters tackle the issue of variational tendency in men and women. These chapters also provide a summary of what is known about sexual character distinction. Psychologists, psychiatrists, endocrinologists, and development biologists will find this book rewarding.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Man and Woman: A Study of Secondary and Tertiary 
2 
Table of Contents 8
PREFACE 4
Chapter I. INTRODUCTION 10
Chapter II. How TO APPROACH THE PROBLEM 36
Chapter III. METABOLISM 50
Respiration 55
The Blood 69
Pulse-rate 75
Temperature 78
Nutrition and Excretion 78
Susceptibility to Poison 83
Hair and Pigmentation 91
Chapter IV. THE VISCERA 101
The Thyroid Gland 102
The Larynx and the Voice 106
The Thoracic Viscera 108
The Abdominal Viscera 109
Chapter V. THE PERIODICITY OF WOMEN 115
Chapter VI. THE GROWTH AND PROPORTIONS OF THE BODY 139
Chapter VII. THE PELVIS 170
Chapter VIII. THE HEAD 189
The Skull 189
Cephalic Index 193
The Face 199
The Facial Angle 201
The Teeth 204
Cranial Capacity 208
The Brain 213
Chapter IX. THE SENSES 233
Touch 233
Sensibility to Pain 236
Smell 241
Taste 245
Hearing 248
Sight 250
Colour-perception and Colour-blindness 253
Coloured Hearing 261
Chapter X. MOTION 264
Manual Dexterity 290
Sense-Judgments 295
Chapter XI. THE UNCONSCIOUS 299
Dreams 308
Hallucinations in the Sane 312
The Action of Anaesthetics 313
Meteorologie Sensibility 317
Hysteria and Other Nervous Troubles 320
Religious Phenomena 329
Chapter XII. THE AFFECTIBILITY OF WOMEN 339
Chapter XIII. THE ARTISTIC IMPULSE 359
Chapter XIV. THE INTELLECTUAL IMPULSE 371
Rapidity of Perception 387
Precocity 395
Industrial and Business Capacities 401
Abstract Thought 406
Religion 410
Politics 413
Summary 414
Conclusion 420
Chapter XV. THE VARIATIONAL TENDENCY 425
Chapter XVI. CONCLUSION 451
INDEX 470

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-4832-2147-4 / 1483221474
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4832-2147-2 / 9781483221472