Constructing Scientific Psychology : Karl Lashley's Mind-Brain Debates Paperback / softback
by Nadine M. (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Weidman
Part of the Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology series
Paperback / softback
Description
Constructing Scientific Psychology, published in 1999, was the first full-scale interpretation of the life and work of the major American neuropsychologist Karl Lashley.
It sets Lashley's research at the heart of two controversies that polarized the American life and human sciences in the first half of the twentieth century.
These concerned the relationship between 'mind' and 'brain' and the relative roles of 'nature' and 'nurture' in shaping behaviour and intelligence.
The book explodes the myth of Lashley's neuropsychology as a fact-driven, 'pure' science by arguing that a belief in the power of heredity and a nativist and deeply conservative racial ideology informed every aspect of his theory and practice.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 9 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780521027779
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 9 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/11/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521027779
