Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Rethinking Disciplinary Specialism in Victorian Sciences | Bernard Lightman and Efram Sera-Shriar
Part I. Between Disciplines
Chapter 1. Interdisciplinarity in Macmillan’s Science Primers | Bernard Lightman
Chapter 2. The Recalcitrant Case of Electrochemistry | Geoffrey Cantor
Part II. Synthesizers
Chapter 3. Expertise across Disciplines: Charles Darwin’s Engagement with Natural History | Janet Browne
Chapter 4. Without a Darwinian Clue? Henry Thomas Buckle and the Naturalization of History | Ian Hesketh
Part III. Practices and Displays
Chapter 5. Good Health on Display: Sanitary Science at the International Health Exhibition | Elsa Richardson
Chapter 6. Victorian Physics and Its Interdisciplinarities | Iwan Rhys Morus
Part IV. Reluctant Collaborations
Chapter 7. Anthropology, Prehistory, and Paleontology as Cross-Disciplinary Endeavors | Chris Manias
Chapter 8. Disciplining the Field: The British Arctic Expedition of 1875 and the Construction of Arctic Research Specialism Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund
Part V. Hybrid Fields
Chapter 9. Stretching the Boundaries of Knowledge: Victorian Spirit Investigations, Credible Witnessing, and the Alleged Exposure of the Medium Henry Slade | Efram Sera-Shriar
Chapter 10. “Animals Cannot Subsist on Air”: Nutrition as a Hybrid Field in Early Victorian Science | James F. Stark and Richard T. Bellis
Afterword. “Withness” and Victorian Scientific Conversations | Bennett Zon
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index