[Robert M. Young, historian of science] Autograph Manuscript cum typescript of early draft with multiple annotations of his Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century: Cerebral Localization and its biological Context from Gall to Ferrier

Binding black (Instantaneous Binder), 4to, good condition, pagination roughly (added notes intervene) as follows: Prelims inc. Contents, 4pp, in pencil inc. titlepage; Preface 13pp, pencil; Summary of Ph.D. Dissertation, two pp. typescript; MS Note for typist; Body of Text, typescript, pp.[1]-59, annotated often heavily in pencil (pages added with extra information); [a second part] Titlepage Experimental Sensory Motor Physiology and the Association Psychology Koyre to Descartes; Body of Text, pp. M1-M23, mainly MS (with added pages both MS and typescript); [third part] Text headed Johannes Muller's Handbuch paginated 9-35, mainly typescript with MS. adds. Notes: A. Wikipedia adds to the headline information that he was a philosopher of the biological and human sciences, and a Kleinian psychotherapist; B. Young, R. M. (1970). Mind, brain and adaptation in the nineteenth century: Cerebral localization and its biological context from Gall to Ferrier. Oxford University Press, 1990. Originally published in 1970, this classic text is now reissued with a new preface in which the author reflects on the book's argument, its reception, and its place in his ongoing research on the problem of understanding human nature: the issues raised by Darwin, Marx and Freud. The author examines early ideas on the nature and localization of the functions of the brain in light of the philosophical constraints on science in the 19th century. Particular attention is paid to phrenology, sensory-motor physiology, associationist psychology, and the theory of evolution as applied to the study of psychology. The author argues that the methods and assumptions of modern science achieved apparent success in this domain at the expense of the biological approach which justified the integration of formerly disparate traditions. The fascinating historical case studies cited by the author continue to illuminate the work of modern-day neuroscientists and the most basic assumptions of their field. (PsycINFO Database Record); C. His thesis became his first book, Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century (1970), which was regarded as groundbreaking in its field. Readings of Darwin, the theory of natural selection and the Victorian debates of which they were part pioneered the study of Darwinian thought in context. Studies of “the common context” of Darwinian and Malthusian ideas (1969) and of Darwin’s metaphor of “natural selection” (1971) lie at the base of a huge amount of work carried out by other scholars. [Guardian obit.]