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  • The Madness Pill

    One Doctor's Quest to Understand Schizophrenia

    by Justin Garson ...
    A rollicking history of the life and work of an unheralded genius: Dr. Solomon Snyder, whose experiments with mind-altering drugs helped change the way we think about the causes and treatments of schizophrenia.In the 1950s, the field of psychiatry had nothing to show for itself. While polio was being cured, antibiotics were being discovered, and cancer research was developing, the mental health ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Madness

    A Philosophical Exploration

    by Justin Garson ...
    Since the time of Hippocrates, madness has typically been viewed through the lens of disease, dysfunction, and defect. Madness, like all other disease, happens when something in the mind, or in the brain, does not operate the way that it should or as nature intended. In this paradigm, the role of the healer is simply to find the dysfunction and fix it. This remains the dominant perspective in ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter

    by Justin Garson ...
    The biological functions debate is a perennial topic in the philosophy of science. In the first full-length account of the nature and importance of biological functions for many years, Justin Garson presents an innovative new theory, the 'generalized selected effects theory of function', which seamlessly integrates evolutionary and developmental perspectives on biological functions. He develops ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Biological Mind

    A Philosophical Introduction

    by Justin Garson ...
    For some, biology explains all there is to know about the mind. Yet many big questions remain: Is the mind shaped by genes or the environment? If mental traits are the result of adaptations built up over thousands of years, as evolutionary psychologists claim, how can such claims be tested? If the mind is a machine, as biologists argue, how does it allow for something as complex as human thought ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • A Critical Overview of Biological Functions

    by Justin Garson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is a critical survey of and guidebook to the literature on biological functions. It ties in with current debates and developments, and at the same time, it looks back on the state of discourse in naturalized teleology prior to the 1970s. It also presents three significant new proposals. First, it describes the generalized selected effects theory, which is one version of the selected ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Biodiversity

    Edited by Justin Garson, Anya Plutynski, Sahotra Sarkar ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Biological diversity - or ‘biodiversity’ - is the degree of variation of life within an ecosystem. It is a relatively new topic of study but has grown enormously in recent years. Because of its interdisciplinary nature the very concept of biodiversity is the subject of debate amongst philosophers, biologists, geographers and environmentalists.The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Biodiversity is ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    The Madness Pill

    One Doctor's Quest to Understand Schizophrenia

    by Justin Garson ...
    Narrated by Justin Garson ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 39 min

    A rollicking history of the life and work of an unheralded genius: Dr. Solomon Snyder, whose experiments with mind-altering drugs helped change the way we think about the causes and treatments of schizophrenia. This program is read by the author.In the 1950s, the field of psychiatry had nothing to show for itself. While polio was being cured, antibiotics were being discovered, and cancer research ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

    The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

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  • Molecules of Emotion

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  • The Man Who Couldn't Stop

    OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought

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  • The Myth of Mental Illness

    Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct

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