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12 produkter
Mind Fixers
Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Häftad, 2020
201 kr
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In this “masterpiece... the preeminent historian of neuroscience” (Science) explores psychiatry’s frustrated efforts to understand mental disorders as medical disorders. Anne Harrington reveals how psychiatry’s waxing and waning theories have been shaped, not just by developments in the clinic and …
Reenchanted Science
Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler
Häftad, 1999
591 kr
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By the 1920s in Central Europe, it had become a truism among intellectuals that natural science had "disenchanted" the world, and in particular had reduced humans to mere mechanisms, devoid of higher purpose. But could a new science of "wholeness" heal what the old science of the "machine" had …
Visions of Compassion
Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature
Av Anne Harrington, Richard J. Davidson
E-bok, 2001
848 kr
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This book examines how Western behavioral science--which has generally focused on negative aspects of human nature--holds up to cross-cultural scrutiny, in particular the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the human potential for altruism, empathy, and compassion. Resulting from a meeting between the …
Visions of Compassion
Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature
Av Richard J. Davidson, Anne Harrington
Inbunden, 2002
1322 kr
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This book examines how Western behavioral science--which has generally focused on negative aspects of human nature--holds up to cross-cultural scrutiny, in particular the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the human potential for altruism, empathy, and compassion. Resulting from a meeting between the …
Visions of Compassion
Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature
Av Anne Harrington, Richard J. Davidson
E-bok, 2001
848 kr
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This book examines how Western behavioral science--which has generally focused on negative aspects of human nature--holds up to cross-cultural scrutiny, in particular the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the human potential for altruism, empathy, and compassion. Resulting from a meeting between the …
Cure Within
A History of Mind-Body Medicine
Häftad, 2009
324 kr
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Is stress a deadly disease on the rise in modern society? Can mind-body practices from the East help us become well? When it comes to healing, we believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must look within ourselves. Faith, relationships, and attitude matter.But why do we believe such …
Dalai Lama at MIT
Av Anne Harrington, Arthur Zajonc
Häftad, 2008
315 kr
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Their meeting captured headlines; the waiting list for tickets was nearly 2000 names long. If you were unable to attend, this book will take you there. Including both the papers given at the conference, and the animated discussion and debate that followed, The Dalai Lama at MIT reveals scientists …
Placebo Effect
An Interdisciplinary Exploration
Häftad, 1999
430 kr
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A mere "symbol" of medicine--the sugar pill, saline injection, doctor in a white lab coat--the placebo nonetheless sometimes produces "real" results. Medical science has largely managed its discomfort with this phenomenon by discounting the placebo effect, subtracting it as an impurity in its data …
Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain
A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought
Häftad, 1989
774 kr
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The description for this book, Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought, will be forthcoming.
Reenchanted Science
Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler
E-bok, 2020
785 kr
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By the 1920s in Central Europe, it had become a truism among intellectuals that natural science had "disenchanted" the world, and in particular had reduced humans to mere mechanisms, devoid of higher purpose. But could a new science of "wholeness" heal what the old science of the "machine" had …
Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain
A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought
E-bok, 2021
1089 kr
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The description for this book, Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought, will be forthcoming.
