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Intuition : the inside story : interdisciplinary perspectives
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ISBN: 0415915937 0415915945 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York : Routledge,


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The mystery of consciousness
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ISBN: 1862070741 9781862070745 Year: 1997 Publisher: London Granta books

Being there : putting brain, body, and world together again
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ISBN: 0262531569 0262032406 0585002754 0262270439 0262260522 9780262531566 9780262270434 9780585002750 9780262032407 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): MIT press

Bodily discursions
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ISBN: 0585066620 9780585066622 9780791431870 0791431878 9780791431887 0791431886 0791431878 0791431886 1438424183 9781438424187 Year: 1997 Publisher: Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press

Minds and bodies : philosophers and their ideas
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ISBN: 0195113551 Year: 1997 Volume: *1 Publisher: New York Oxford Oxford University Press

Treatie on the human mind (1664)
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ISBN: 0792347781 9048149290 9401735905 9780792347781 Year: 1997 Volume: 153 Publisher: Dordrecht ; Boston ; London Kluwer academic publishers

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Descartes' philosophy represented one of the most explicit statements of mind-body dualism in the history of philosophy. Its most familiar expression is found in the Meditations (1641) and in Part I of The Principles 0/ Philosophy (1644). However neither of these books provided a detailed discussion of dualism. The Meditations was primarily concerned with finding a foundation for reliable human knowledge, while the Principles attempted to provide an alternative metaphysical framework, in contrast with scholastic philosophy, within which natural philosophy or a scien­ tific explanation of natural phenomena could be developed. Thus neither book ex­ plicitly presents a Cartesian theory of the mind nor does either give a detailed account of how, if dualism were accepted, mind and body would interact. The task of articulating such a theory was left to two further works, only one of which was completed by Descartes, viz. the Treatise on Man (published posthumously in 1664). The Treatise began with the following sentence, describing the hypothetical human beings who were to be explained in that work: 'These human beings will be com­ posed, as we are, of a soul and a body; and, first of all, I must describe the body for you separately; then, also separately, the soul; and fmally I must show you how these two natures would have to be joined and united to constitute human beings resembling us.

Mental Ills and Bodily Cures : Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 0520917936 0585055149 9780520917934 9780585055145 0520205472 Year: 1997 Volume: 8 Publisher: Berkeley, California : University of California Press,

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Mental Ills and Bodily Cures depicts a time when psychiatric medicine went to lengths we now find extreme and perhaps even brutal ways to heal the mind by treating the body. From a treasure trove of California psychiatric hospital records, including many verbatim transcripts of patient interviews, Joel Braslow masterfully reconstructs the world of mental patients and their doctors in the first half of the twentieth century. Hydrotherapy, sterilization, electroshock, lobotomy, and clitoridectomy--these were among the drastic somatic treatments used in these hospitals. By allowing the would-be healers and those in psychological and physical distress to speak for themselves, Braslow captures the intense and emotional interplay surrounding these therapies. His investigation combines revealing clinical detail with the immediacy of "being there" in the institutional setting while decisions are made, procedures undertaken, and results observed by all those involved. We learn how well-intentioned physicians could rationalize and regard as therapeutic treatments that often had dreadful consequences, and how much the social and cultural world is inscribed within the practice of biological psychiatry. The book will interest historians of medicine, practicing psychiatrists, and everyone who knows or has seen what it's like to be in mental distress.

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