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  • The Madness Pill

    One Doctor's Quest to Understand Schizophrenia

    de Justin Garson ...
    A rollicking history of the life and work of an unheralded genius: Dr. Solomon Snyder, whose experiments with mind-altering drugs helped change the way we think about the causes and treatments of schizophrenia.In the 1950s, the field of psychiatry had nothing to show for itself. While polio was being cured, antibiotics were being discovered, and cancer research was developing, the mental health ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Madness

    A Philosophical Exploration

    de Justin Garson ...
    Since the time of Hippocrates, madness has typically been viewed through the lens of disease, dysfunction, and defect. Madness, like all other disease, happens when something in the mind, or in the brain, does not operate the way that it should or as nature intended. In this paradigm, the role of the healer is simply to find the dysfunction and fix it. This remains the dominant perspective in ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter

    de Justin Garson ...
    The biological functions debate is a perennial topic in the philosophy of science. In the first full-length account of the nature and importance of biological functions for many years, Justin Garson presents an innovative new theory, the 'generalized selected effects theory of function', which seamlessly integrates evolutionary and developmental perspectives on biological functions. He develops ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Biological Mind

    A Philosophical Introduction

    de Justin Garson ...
    For some, biology explains all there is to know about the mind. Yet many big questions remain: Is the mind shaped by genes or the environment? If mental traits are the result of adaptations built up over thousands of years, as evolutionary psychologists claim, how can such claims be tested? If the mind is a machine, as biologists argue, how does it allow for something as complex as human thought ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • A Critical Overview of Biological Functions

    de Justin Garson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is a critical survey of and guidebook to the literature on biological functions. It ties in with current debates and developments, and at the same time, it looks back on the state of discourse in naturalized teleology prior to the 1970s. It also presents three significant new proposals. First, it describes the generalized selected effects theory, which is one version of the selected ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Biodiversity

    Edición de Justin Garson, Anya Plutynski, Sahotra Sarkar ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Biological diversity - or ‘biodiversity’ - is the degree of variation of life within an ecosystem. It is a relatively new topic of study but has grown enormously in recent years. Because of its interdisciplinary nature the very concept of biodiversity is the subject of debate amongst philosophers, biologists, geographers and environmentalists.The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Biodiversity is ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

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    The Madness Pill

    One Doctor's Quest to Understand Schizophrenia

    de Justin Garson ...
    Narrado por Justin Garson ...

    Completo

    7 hora 39 minutos

    A rollicking history of the life and work of an unheralded genius: Dr. Solomon Snyder, whose experiments with mind-altering drugs helped change the way we think about the causes and treatments of schizophrenia. This program is read by the author.In the 1950s, the field of psychiatry had nothing to show for itself. While polio was being cured, antibiotics were being discovered, and cancer research ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • Anatomy of an Epidemic

    Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

    de Robert Whitaker ...
    Updated with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with new research, this New York Times bestseller is essential reading for a time when mental health is constantly in the news.In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

    The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

    de Iain McGilchrist ...
    Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound—not just this or that function, but two whole, coherent, but incompatible ways of experiencing the world. The left ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Molecules of Emotion

    The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine

    de Candace B. Pert, Ph.D. ...
    The bestselling and revolutionary book that serves as a “landmark in our understanding of the mind-body connection” (Deepak Chopra, MD).Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health?In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert—an extraordinary neuroscientist who played a pivotal role in the discovery of the opiate receptor—provides startling ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Man Who Couldn't Stop

    OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought

    de David Adam ...
    Winner of the Medical Journalists’ Association’s Tony Thistlethwaite AwardA Finalist for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science BooksRecipient of the International OCD Foundation’s Illumination AwardAn intimate look at the power of intrusive thoughts, how our brains can turn against us, and living with obsessive compulsive disorderWhat might lead a schoolgirl to eat a wall of her house, pi... ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Myth of Mental Illness

    Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct

    de Thomas S. Szasz ...
    “The landmark book that argued that psychiatry consistently expands its definition of mental illness to impose its authority over moral and cultural conflict.” — New York TimesThe 50th anniversary edition of the most influential critique of psychiatry every written, with a new preface on the age of Prozac and Ritalin and the rise of designer drugs, plus two bonus essays.Thomas Szasz's classic book ... Leer más

    $10.49 USD