CONSTRUCTING SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY by Nadine M. Weidman, Mitchell G. Ash, William Ray Woodward ( 9780521027779 )

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CONSTRUCTING SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY
KARL LASHLEY'S MIND-BRAIN DEBATES

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Nadine M. Weidman, Mitchell G. Ash, William Ray Woodward

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0521027772

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

25 July, 2006

Series:

Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology

Pages:

240

Description:

This 1999 book was the first full-scale interpretation of the life and work of the major American neuropsychologist Karl Lashley.

Synopsis:

Constructing Scientific Psychology, published in 1999, was 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 behaviour 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.

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