Notes on the Development of a Child: University of California studies. 1893 - 1899 (v. 1)

University of California (Berkeley, Calif.); Milicent Washburn Shinn

Verlag: University of California Press., 1893

Beschreibung

Vol. 4 Parts 1-4. Bound in 3/4 red leather over marbled boards. Front board detached. Original covers bound in at rear. In 1893, 25 years after the university's founding, the University of California press formed. This journal was one of the first publications of UC press. Additionally contains a postcard (with a 1 cent Benjamin Franklin stamp from 1898, scott 279) from the Library of the University of California J. D. Layman, Asst. Lib. stating there is no index for this volume. Shinn (UC, Berkley 1880) was the first woman to receive a doctorate from the University of California and the eleventh individual awarded a Ph.D. at the university. She worked with her brother's newborn, Ruth to develop a scientific consideration of infant development. "Her dissertation, Notes on the Development of a Child, was published in 3 installments between 1893 and 1899. In 1900 she also published a popular version of her findings, called The Biography of a Baby. Her works received widespread acclaim, and for years her Notes was considered the foundational text for developmental psychology classes. Even Wilhelm Preyer, her only predecessor in such a comprehensive record, was impressed, and called for the work to be translated into German," Rodkey, E. (2010) Milicent Shinn - Psychology's Feminist Voices. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1709050049

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Titel: Notes on the Development of a Child: ...

Verlag: University of California Press.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1893

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good