Mesmerized

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Invitation to the Seance
1: Discovery of the Island of Mesmeria
2: Animal Magnetism Comes to London
3: Experimental Subjects as Scientific Instruments
4: Carnival, Chapel, and Pantomime
5: The Peripatetic Power of the "New Science"
6: Consultations, Conversaziones, and Institutions
7: The Invention of Anesthesia and the Redefinition of Pain
8: Colonizing Sensations in Victorian India
9: Emanations from the Sickroom
10: The Mesmeric Cure of Souls
11: Expertise, Common Sense, and the Territories of Science
12: The Social Body and the Invention of Consensus
Conclusion: The Day after the Feast
Notes
Bibliography
Index