- Hardcover: 292 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press (29 Jan 1970)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198581289
- ISBN-13: 978-0198581284
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,930,355 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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One of the best histories of neuroscience
15 Oct 2006
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Most histories of neuroscience tend to be mere recountings of events, not actual histories. This is not merely a timeline or an ordering of facts, but a philosophically sophisticated telling of how we have come to understand the mind and the brain. I trained as a historian of science at Cambridge, and I am on my way to becoming a neurosurgeon --- I wish I had written this book. If you want to understand today's mind-brain problem, this is the book that tells you how we got here. It is also the book that highlights that some of the central scientific directions are not necessarily great leaps forward, but may represent pendulum swings in a larger debate about behavior and the brain, specifically regarding whether the brain acts as circuits or is composed of discrete processing centers. It's a shame the author left history for psychoanalysis!
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