| Constructing Scientific Psychology Contributor(s): Weidman, Nadine M. (Author), Ash, Mitchell G. (Editor), Woodward, William R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521621623 ISBN-13: 9780521621625 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1999 Annotation: Constructing Scientific Psychology is 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 behavior 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | History - Psychology | Neuropsychology - Science | History |
| Dewey: 150.92 |
| LCCN: 98026461 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.37" W x 9.31" (1.18 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: Constructing Scientific Psychology is 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 behavior 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. |