William H. Sheldon's constitutional psychology: the somatotype as fiction

<p>In this thesis I argue that William H. Sheldon's somatotypes can be seen as fictional constructions. The traditional notion of idealization in prose fiction intrudes into Sheldon's reading of his somatotypes; the same kind of idealization, based on anthropological stereotyping, th...

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Main Author: Gatlin, Stephen H.
Other Authors: Science and Technology Studies
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45138
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10102009-020322/