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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Emily Williams Kelly Klappentext Ian Stevenson was an internationally-known psychiatrist who sought to examine, with scientific rigor, questions usually reserved for philosophy and religion. Featuring a selection of his papers and excerpts from his books, Science, the Self, and Survival after Death presents the larger context of Stevenson's work and illustrates the issues and questions that guided him throughout his career. Zusammenfassung Ian Stevenson was an internationally-known psychiatrist who sought to examine! with scientific rigor! questions usually reserved for philosophy and religion. Featuring a selection of his papers and excerpts from his books! Science! the Self! and Survival after Death presents t... Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction General Introduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 1. "Some of My Journeys in Medicine" (1989) Part 1: New Ideas in ScienceIntroduction (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 PersonalityIntroduction (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 MethodsIntroduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 11. "Changing Fashions in the Study of Spontaneous Cases" (1987) 12. Excerpts from "Comments on Paper by Michael Scriven" (1962) 13. "Thoughts on the Decline of Major Paranormal Phenomena" (1990) Part 4: Research on the Question of Survival After Death: Reviewsand Representative Case ReportsIntroduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 14. "Sources of Evidence Supporting a Belief in Survival" (1969) 15. "Research into the Evidence of Man's Survival After Death" (1977) a. ApparitionsIntroduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 16. Cases 1- 4 from "Six Modern Apparitional Experiences" (1995) b. Deathbed VisionsIntroduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 17. Cases 5-6 from "Six Modern Apparitional Experiences" (1995) c. Out-of-Body and Near-Death ExperiencesIntroduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 18. "Cardiac Arrest Remembered" (1971) 19. Excerpts from "Comments on 'The Reality of Death Experiences: A Personal Perspective'" (1980)20. "The Case of Linda McKnight" (1998) d. Mediumship: Drop-in CommunicatorsIntroduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 21. "A Communicator of the 'Drop-In' Type in Iceland: The Case of Gudni Magnusson" (1975) e. Cases of the Reincarnation TypeIntroduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 22. Excerpts from "Reincarnation: Field Studies and Theoretical Issues"(1977) 23. "Some New Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. IV: The Case of Ampan Petcherat" (1973) 24. "Three New Cases of the Reincarnation Type in Sri Lanka with Written Records Made before Verification" (1988)f. Cases of the Reincarnation Type with Birthmarks and Birth DefectsIntroduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 25. Excerpt from Reincarnation and Biology (1997) 26. "Birthmarks and Birth Defects Corresponding to Wounds in Deceased Persons" (1993) 27. Case of Hanumant Saxena (1997) g. Cases of Maternal ImpressionsIntroduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 28. "A New Look at Maternal Impressions: An Analysis of 50 Published Cases and Reports of Two Recent Examples" (1992) 29. "A Case of Severe Birth Defects Possibly Due to Cursing" (1989) h. Cases of the Possession TypeIntroduction (Emily Williams Kelly) 30. "A Case of the Possession...
