Constructing Scientific Psychology: Karl Lashley's Mind-Brain Debates
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology Series)
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521027772
ISBN13:9780521027779
Release Date:November 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.79 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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