The end of the soul. Scientific modernity, atheism, and anthropol

Introduction: The end of the soul; The society of mutual autopsy and the liturgy of death; Evangelical atheism and the rise of thhe French anthropology; Scientific materialim and the public response; Careers in anthropology and the Betillon family; No soul, no morality: Vacher de Lapouge; Body and soul: léonce Manouvrier and the disappearing numbers; The leftist critique of determinist science; Coda.