The Sickening Mind - Brain, Behaviour, Immunity and Disease

Informationen zum Autor Paul Martin was educated at Cambridge University and at Stanford University, California, where he was Harkness Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences. He lectured and researched in Behavioural Biology at Cambridge University, and was a Fellow of Wolfson College, before leaving academia to pursue other interests, including science writing. His previous books include The Sickening Mind and Counting Sheep. Klappentext 'A masterpiece of popularization' Times Literary Supplement 'A fascinating account, based on objective scientific research, of the ways in which mental states affect the individual's liability to disease... Martin is a highly civilised scientist, who seasons his text with witty parentheses. He also provides many examples from literature, ranging widely from Shakespeare, Goethe and Hardy to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Kafka... Interesting, informative and a pleasure to read.' ANTHONY STORR, Sunday Times 'Excellent' JON TURNEY, Financial Times 'This most accessible account of a difficult subject blows away some prejudices and pleasingly justifies others... Martin is a biologist whose style is considerate of the layman...and it is a tribute to his own benignly infectious enthusiasm for his subject that his closing thoughts are encouraging... Remarkable.' ALAN JUDD, Daily Telegraph 'Compelling... Balanced and impressively up to date... The tone of voice, the open-minded but critical intelligence should uplift the quality of the debate... Martin's lucid account of possible mechanisms of the connections between mental states and personality traits and illnesses is a notable triumph of his book... Excellent.' RAYMOND TALLIS, Times Literary Supplement Zusammenfassung 'A masterpiece of popularization' Times Literary Supplement

Product details

• Authors: Paul Martin, Paul R. Martin, Martin Paul
• Publisher: Flamingo
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.01.1998
• EAN: 9780006550228
• ISBN: 978-0-00-655022-8
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, MEDICAL / Neuroscience, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychiatry, Popular psychology, Popular medicine & health, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Psychology: states of consciousness, Psychosomatics, Diseases & disorders, Health psychology, Neurosciences, Psychological methodology, Popular medicine and health, Medical Sociology, States Of Consciousness