Published June, 2018
By John Symons
Publisher: Springer
Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Theories of Brain Function and the Nature of Vision

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Published December, 2015
By Jerome C. Wakefield and Steeves Demazeux
Publisher: Springer
Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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The World Health Organization states that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and predicts that by 2030 the epidemic of depression raging across the world will be the single biggest contributor to the overall burden of disease of all health conditions.

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Published December, 2015
By Peter Distelzweig, Benjamin Goldberg, Evan Ragland and Evan R. Ragland
Publisher: Springer
Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Published July, 2015
By Charles T. Wolfe and Sebastian Normandin
Publisher: Springer
Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy, representing an epistemological challenge to the dominance of mechanism over the last 200 years, and partly revived with organicism in early theoretical biology.

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Published March, 2015
By Patrick Singy and Steeves Demazeux
Publisher: Springer
Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Since its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public.

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Published October, 2014
By Philippe Huneman, Marc Silberstein and Gerard Lambert
Publisher: Springer
Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health?

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Published May, 2014
By Harry Whitaker and C.U.M. Smith
Publisher: Springer
Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Chapters on slavery and the self and the development of an understanding of Dualism bring this examination up to date on the latest 21st century work in the field. At the heart of this book is the matter of how we define the problem of consciousness itself: has there been any progress in our understanding of the working of mind and brain?

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Published June, 2013
By Sebastien Normandin, Charles T. Wolfe and Sebastian Normandin
Publisher: Springer
Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
Rating: 3.00
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Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy, representing an epistemological challenge to the dominance of mechanism over the last 200 years, and partly revived with organicism in early theoretical biology.

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