Paperback. Pub Date :2010-04-29 Pages: 320 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK In Why Us. James Le Fanu explores the major implications of the most recent findings of genetics and neuroscience. challenging the common assumption that they must ultimately explain all there is to know about life and man's place in the world. On the contrary. he argues. they point to an unbridgeable explanatory gap between the genes strung out along the Double Helix and the near infinite beauty and diversity of the living world to which they give rise. and between the monotonous electro-chemistry of the brain and richness and creativity of the human mind. There is. he writes. a powerful impression that science has been looking in the wrong place. seeking to resolve questions that somehow lie outside . its domain It is as if we - and indeed all living things -. are in some way different...

Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves

Fanu, James Le

Health, Fitness & Dieting

HarperPress

<p>The achievements of medicine in the post-war period rank as one of the most sustained epochs of human endeavour since the Renaissance. So dramatic and profound has been the assault on disease that it is now almost impossible to imagine the world of just fifty years ago when there were no drugs for most killer diseases. These achievements have had a profoundly beneficial effect on people's lives as well as being a liberating force, freeing them from the fear of illness or untimely death, permitting them for the first time in human history to live out their natural lifespans, while significantly ameliorating the chronic disabilities associated with ageing. The scope of medicine is immeasurably greater than it was fifty years ago, but the optimism generated by those achievements seems to have evaporated. Medicine is doing better but feeling worse.<br><br>THE RISE AND FALL OF MODERN MEDICINE presents for the first time a comprehensive and searching appraisal of the science, philosophy and politics of modern medicine.</p>

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine

Medical Books

History

Time Warner Books Uk

Family Encyclopedia of Home Remedies

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Robinson Publishing

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