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Mind Fixers
In this “masterpiece... the preeminent historian of neuroscience” (Science) explores psychiatry’s frustrated efforts to understand mental disorders as medical disorders. Anne …
Mind Fixers
In this "e;masterpiece... the preeminent historian of neuroscience"e; (Science) explores psychiatry's frustrated efforts to understand mental disorders as medical …
Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons
Recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience have improved our understanding of why our decision making processes fail to match standard social science assumptions about …
If Only in My Dreams
St. Lawrence County Portraits
St. Lawrence County Portraits is a tribute to the citizens who shaped New York State,s largest county. St. Lawrence is a county with many natural attributes: immense forests, …
Aging, Media, and Culture
The intersections of aging, media, and culture are under-explored given trends in population aging, rapid increases in the mediation of everyday life, and the growing cultural …
Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law
Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law is the first 100% open-access collection of peer-reviewed essays devoted entirely to critical appraisals of public law topics in …
Dalai Lama at MIT
Their meeting captured headlines; the waiting list for tickets was nearly 2000 names long. If you were unable to attend, this book will take you there. Including both the papers …
Reenchanted Science
By the 1920s in Central Europe, it had become a truism among intellectuals that natural science had "e;disenchanted"e; the world, and in particular had reduced humans to …
Visions of Compassion
This book examines how Western behavioral science--which has generally focused on negative aspects of human nature--holds up to cross-cultural scrutiny, in particular the Tibetan …
The Placebo Effect
A mere "symbol" of medicine--the sugar pill, saline injection, doctor in a white lab coat--the placebo nonetheless sometimes produces "real" results. Medical science has largely …