Psychosomatic - Feminism and the Neurological Body

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth A. Wilson is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney in Australia. She is the author of Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition. Klappentext Explores the ways in neuroscientific research bears on the relation between psyche and the body. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Somatic Compliance 1 1. Freud, Prozac, and Melancholic Neurology 15 2. The Brain in the Gut 31 3. Hypothalamic Preference: LeVay’s Study of Sexual Orientation 49 4. Trembling, Blushing: Darwin’s Nervous System 63 5. Emotional Lizards: Evolution and the Reptilian Brain 79 Notes 97 References 113 Index 123

Product details

• Authors: Wilson, Elizabeth A Wilson, Elizabeth A. Wilson
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2004
• EAN: 9780822333562
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3356-2
• No. of pages: 136
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziale und ethische Themen