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Soul Made Flesh The Discovery of the Brain--And How It Changed the World

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.06.2005

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Verlag

Simon & Schuster N.Y.

Seitenzahl

384

Maße (L/B/H)

21,6/14/2,3 cm

Gewicht

404 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-7432-7205-6

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.06.2005

Abbildungen

Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert

Verlag

Simon & Schuster N.Y.

Seitenzahl

384

Maße (L/B/H)

21,6/14/2,3 cm

Gewicht

404 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-7432-7205-6

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Soul Made Flesh
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction: A Bowl of Curds

    Chapter One: Hearts and Minds, Livers and Stomachs

    • Greeks explore the soul, puzzle over the brain, and embrace the heart

    • Christians build a soul from ancient parts

    • Natural philosophy is born and anatomy becomes a sacred art

    • Vesalius discovers monkeys where men once stood

    • The Greeks are transformed, the soul questioned

    Chapter Two: World Without Soul

    • Anatomy of the cosmos

    • Galileo's new sky

    • Marin Mersenne makes the world a machine

    • Pierre Gassendi sanctifies the atom

    • Descartes's anatomy of clear ideas

    • The human body as earthen machine

    • The soul climbs into its cockpit

    • An arrest

    • The perfect argument

    • The ice queen makes Descartes an offer

    • The captive leaves its prison

    Chapter Three: Make Motion Cease

    • Thomas Willis with the beasts of the field

    • Protestants and Puritans

    • The divine right of kings and the complaints of Parliament

    • God and Aristotle at Oxford

    • Servant and alchemist

    • Mystical medicine comes to England

    Chapter Four: The Broken Heart of the Republic

    • Charles I stumbles toward war

    • Fever swings its scythe

    • Portrait of a physician as a young man

    • Willis fights for his king

    • Oxford dark and nasty

    • William Harvey under siege

    • Harvey at the school of Aristotle

    • Harvey finds the soul in the blood and says little about the brain

    • Harvey discovers the circle of blood

    • Oliver Cromwell tightens the noose

    • Surrender to madness

    Chapter Five: Pisse-Prophets Among the Puritans

    • Thomas Willis returns

    • Medicine in the marketplace

    • Ferments dissolve the four humors

    • The Puritans demand an oath

    • The Oxford Experimental Philosophy Club

    • William Petty: From Thomas Hobbes's mouth to Thomas Willis's ear

    • Charles becomes a martyr to the people

    • England the republic

    • The madness of defeat

    • The Miraculous Case of Anne Greene, or A Clock Reset • William Petty measures the soul of a nation

    • Willis hosts an illegal church

    Chapter Six: The Circle of Willis

    • William Harvey comes out of retirement

    • Thomas Willis searches for the agents of fever

    • The Experimental Philosophy Club fights for its life and for respectability

    • Hobbes as politician and neurologist

    • Robert Boyle gives shape to the New Science

    Chapter Seven: Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Air

    • Willis stirs up a ferment of atoms

    • A crude dream of the brain

    • Cromwell uprooted

    • Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke pump away the soul

    • Christopher Wren, surgeon and injector

    • The return of the king

    Chapter Eight: A Curious Quilted Ball

    • The Church of England meets its less than divine leader

    • Thomas Willis becomes hero of a nation

    • "I addicted myself to the opening of heads"

    • Willis discovers a doctrine of the nerves

    • The Royal Society

    Chapter Nine: Convulsions

    • The lady with a migraine

    • Convulsions in the year of plague and fire

    Chapter Ten: The Science of Brutes

    • From Oxford to London

    • Richard Lower transfuses blood into a madman

    • Lower and Hooke discover Willis's mistake in the lungs of dogs

    • Willis constructs a doctrine of the soul

    • Madness explained

    • Thomas Willis avoids Hobbes's fate

    Chapter Eleven: The Neurologist Vanishes

    • A final book by Thomas Willis and a ridiculously sumptuous funeral

    • How John Locke buried his teacher

    • Robert Boyle sees the future before he dies and is not consoled

    Chapter Twelve: The Soul's Microscope

    • A long journey forward

    • The soul as information

    • Lightning in a nerve

    • The wisdom of the reflex

    • Neurologists read the brain

    • MRI and the module

    • The networked mind

    • The able animal soul

    • Emotion with reason, not versus

    • Steel syrup and Prozac

    • The self anatomized

    • The social brain

    • Morals and neurons

    • Lady Conway and Dr. Willis meet again

    Dramatis Personae

    Notes

    References

    Acknowledgments

    Index