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Robert L. Martensen The Brain Takes Shape (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- The Brain Takes Shape
- Title
- The Brain Takes Shape
- Subtitle
- An Early History
- ISBN-10
- 0195151720
- EAN
- 9780195151725
- ISBN
- 9780195151725
- Genre
- Medicine
- Topic
- Philosophy & Spirituality
- Release Date
- 20/05/2004
- Release Year
- 2004
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 165mm
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- The Brain Takes Shape: an Early History
- Item Height
- 243mm
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Item Width
- 165mm
- Subject
- Medicine, Science, Biology
- Item Weight
- 613g
- Number of Pages
- 278 Pages
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Advance Praise for The Brain Takes Shape: 'Scholars often pay lip service to the important roles of theological and philosophical concepts in the making of modern science and medicine. Robert Martensen has taken the platitude seriously, and his book powerfully demonstrates how our modern beliefs about mind and body were first elaborated in the seventeenth century, when philosophy, theology and science were intertwined. The result is a cultural history of biomedicine at its very best.' -W.F. Bynum, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College LondonUsing historical and anthropological perspectives to examine mind-body relationships in western thought, this book interweaves topics that are usually disconnected to tell a big, important story in the histories of medicine, science, philosophy, religion, and political rhetoric. Beginning with early debates during the Scientific Revolution about representation and reality, Martensen demonstrates how investigators such as Vesalius and Harvey sought to transform long-standing notions of the body as dominated by spirit-like humors into portrayals that emphasized its solid tissues. Subsequently, Descartes and Willis and their followers amended this 'new' philosophy to argue for the primacy of the cerebral hemispheres and cranial nerves as they downplayed the role of the spirit, passion, and the heart in human thought and behaviour. None of this occurred in a social vacuum, and the book places these medical and philosophical innovations in the context of the religious and political crises of the Reformation and English Civil War and its aftermath. Patrons and their interests are part of the story, as are patients and new formulations of gender. John Locke's psychology and the emergence in England of a constitutional monarchy figure prominently, as do opponents of the new doctrines of brain and nerves and the emergent social order. The book's concluding chapter discusses how debates over investigative methods and models of body order that first raged over 300 years ago continue to influence biomedicine and the broader culture today. No other book on western mind-body relationships has attempted this.
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Oxford University Press Inc
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9780195151725
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Publication Name
The Brain Takes Shape: an Early History
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Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Science, Biology
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
278 Pages
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243mm
Item Width
165mm
Item Weight
613g
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United States
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