The Definition of a Profession : : The Authority of Metaphor in the History of Intelligence Testing, 1890-1930 / / JoAnne Brown.
In the early twentieth century, a small group of psychologists built a profession upon the new social technology of intelligence testing. They imagined the human mind as quantifiable, defining their new enterprise through analogies to the better established scientific professions of medicine and eng...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1992] ©1993 |
Year of Publication: | 1992 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE. The Semantics of Profession: A Theory
- CHAPTER TWO. Psychology as a Science
- CHAPTER THREE. Education as a Profession
- CHAPTER FOUR. The Biographical Referents of Metaphor
- CHAPTER FIVE. Historical Meanings of Medical Language
- CHAPTER SIX. Human Engineering
- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Great War
- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Lingua Franca of Progressivism
- Notes
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index