Science, the Self, and Survival after Death (eBook, PDF)

Selected Writings of Ian Stevenson
Redaktion: Kelly, Emily Williams

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Ian Stevenson was a prominent and internationally-known psychiatrist, researcher, and well-regarded figure in the field of psychical research. Science, the Self, and Survival after Death is the first book devoted to surveying the entirety of his work and the extraordinary scope and variety of his research. He studied universal questions that cut to the core of a person's identity: What is consciousness? How did we become the unique individuals that we are? Do we survive in some form after death? Stevenson's writings on the nature of science and the mind-body relationship, as well as his empirical research, demonstrate his strongly held belief that the methods of science can be applied successfully to such humanly vital questions. Featuring a selection of his papers and excerpts from his books, this collection presents the larger context of Stevenson's work and illustrates the issues and questions that guided him throughout his career.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881864194
• Artikelnr.: 74832623

Autorenporträt

Emily Williams Kelly (PhD University of Edinburgh) is research assistant professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies, Department of Psychiatric Medicine, at the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
General Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly)
1. "Some of My Journeys in Medicine" (1989)
Part 1: New Ideas in Science
Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly)
2. "Scientists with Half-Closed Minds" (1958)
3. "What Are the Irreducible Components of the Scientific Enterprise?"
(1999)
Part 2: The Nature of Human Personality
Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly)
4. "Why Medicine is Not a Science" (1949)
5. Excerpts from "The End of Patient Abuse in Medical Care" (1985)
6. Excerpts from "Psychosomatic Medicine. Part I. What We Know about
Illness and the Emotions" (1954)
7. "Bodily Changes Corresponding to Mental Images in the Person Affected"
(1997)
8. "Bodily Changes Corresponding to Another Person's Mental Images" (1997)
9. Excerpts from "Comments on the Psychological Effects of Mescaline and
Allied Drugs" (1957)
10. Excerpts from "Can We Describe the Mind?" (1980)
Part 3: Psychical Research - Principles and Methods
Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly