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WHY US?

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作者: James Le Fanu 著

出版社: Random House US

出版时间: 2010-04

版次: 1

ISBN: 9781400030545

定价: 138.00

装帧: 平装

开本: 32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 303页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>语言文字

In this daring treatise on the current state of scientificinquiry, James Le Fanu challenges the common assumption thatfurther progress in genetic research and neuroscience mustultimately explain all there is to know about life and man’s placein the world. On the contrary, he argues, the most recentscientific findings point to an unbridgeable explanatory gapbetween the genes strung out along the Double Helix and the beautyand diversity of the living world—and between the electricalactivity of the brain and the abundant creativity of the humanmind. His exploration of these mysteries, and his analysis of wherethey might lead us in our thinking about the nature and purpose ofhuman existence, form the impassioned and riveting heart of WhyUs? James Le Fanu is an international award winningauthor who for the past twenty years has contributed a twice weeklycolumn on medicine, science and social policy to the Sundayand Daily Telegraph. His articles and reviews have alsoappeared in the New Statesman, The Spectator, GQ, theBritish Medical Journal, and the Journal of the RoyalSociety of Medicine. He has made original contributions tocurrent controversies over the value of experiments on humanembryos, environmentalism, dietary causes of diseases, and themisdiagnosis of non-accidental injury in children. His previousbook, The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, won the LosAngeles Times Book Prize in 2001. He lives in England.

www.jameslefanu.com List of illustrations

Introduction: A Mystery to Ourselves

1  Science Triumphant, Mmost

2  The Ascent of Man: A Riddle in Two Parts

3  The Limits of Science 1: The Quixotic Universe

4  The (Evolutionary) 'Reason for Everything': Certainty

5  The (Evolutionary) 'Reason for Everything': Doubt

6   The Limits of Science 2: The Impenetrable Helix

7  The Fall of Man: A Tragedy in Two Acts

8  The Limits of Science 3: The Unfathomable Brain

9  The Silence

10  Restoring Man to His Pedestal

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index
内容简介:
In this daring treatise on the current state of scientificinquiry, James Le Fanu challenges the common assumption thatfurther progress in genetic research and neuroscience mustultimately explain all there is to know about life and man’s placein the world. On the contrary, he argues, the most recentscientific findings point to an unbridgeable explanatory gapbetween the genes strung out along the Double Helix and the beautyand diversity of the living world—and between the electricalactivity of the brain and the abundant creativity of the humanmind. His exploration of these mysteries, and his analysis of wherethey might lead us in our thinking about the nature and purpose ofhuman existence, form the impassioned and riveting heart of WhyUs?
作者简介:
James Le Fanu is an international award winningauthor who for the past twenty years has contributed a twice weeklycolumn on medicine, science and social policy to the Sundayand Daily Telegraph. His articles and reviews have alsoappeared in the New Statesman, The Spectator, GQ, theBritish Medical Journal, and the Journal of the RoyalSociety of Medicine. He has made original contributions tocurrent controversies over the value of experiments on humanembryos, environmentalism, dietary causes of diseases, and themisdiagnosis of non-accidental injury in children. His previousbook, The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, won the LosAngeles Times Book Prize in 2001. He lives in England.

www.jameslefanu.com
目录:
List of illustrations

Introduction: A Mystery to Ourselves

1  Science Triumphant, Mmost

2  The Ascent of Man: A Riddle in Two Parts

3  The Limits of Science 1: The Quixotic Universe

4  The (Evolutionary) 'Reason for Everything': Certainty

5  The (Evolutionary) 'Reason for Everything': Doubt

6   The Limits of Science 2: The Impenetrable Helix

7  The Fall of Man: A Tragedy in Two Acts

8  The Limits of Science 3: The Unfathomable Brain

9  The Silence

10  Restoring Man to His Pedestal

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index

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