Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction:The End of the Soul 1
6. 1. The Society of Mutual Autopsy and the Liturgy of Death 6
7. 2. Evangelical Atheism and the Rise of French Anthropology 41
8. 3. Scientific Materialism and the Public Response 91
9. 4. Careers in Anthropology and the Bertillon Family 135
10. 5. No Soul, No Morality: Vacher de Lapouge 168
11. 6. Body and Soul: Léonce Manouvrier and the Disappearing Numbers 211
12. 7. The Leftist Critique of Determinist Science 257
13. 8. Coda 296
14. Conclusion 306
15. Notes 319
16. Bibliography 366
17. Index 387