Steven Rose Libri

Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.

Neuroscience, with its astounding new technologies, is uncovering the workings of the brain and with this perhaps the mind. The 'neuro' prefix spills out into every area of life, from neuroaesthetics to neuroeconomics, neurogastronomy and neuroeducation.

There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. It is still more unlikely that the title should have been conferred on a man regarded by many in the US as a notorious ra

Following in the fashion of Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Medawar, one of the world's leading scientists examines how "pure science" is in fact shaped and guided by social and political needs and assumptions.

Rejecting the notion that genes determine the organism, which then adapts to the environment, he explains that organisms, influenced in their development by their circumstances, in turn create, modify, and choose the environment in which they live."--BOOK JACKET.

A compelling and authoritative study of the brain - its past, present and future. He also investigates how brains develop from a single fertilised egg to the incredibly complex organ that each human possesses. Against this background he asks the challenging question: what does the future hold for the human brain?

In this discussion of the links between brain and mind, Steven Rose traces the road to a new understanding of memory that he and other researchers have followed, with all its false turnings and misleading signposts. The winner of the Rhone-Poulenc Science Prize 1993.

Includes developments in DNA and protein synthesis, cell regulation, and their social and medical implications.

The human brain is the most complex structure in the known universe.

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