{"product_id":"psychosomatic-9780822333654","title":"Psychosomatic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the ways in neuroscientific research bears on the relation between psyche and the body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is quite a while since we have heard a voice as refreshing as that of Elizabeth A. Wilson. With boldness, wit, and extraordinary inventiveness, she shows us just how delimiting have been prevailing tendencies in science studies and feminist theory to marginalize, if not outright repudiate, the material, biological dimensions of human psychology. At the same time, by demonstrating the power of reading biological accounts with the eye of a critical theorist, she reveals the limitations operating within the life sciences. \u003ci\u003ePsychosomatic \u003c\/i\u003eteaches all of us how to do better: how to read neuroscience for the creative lessons it can offer the human sciences and how to employ the insights of the human sciences to open these same texts to dramatically new understandings.”—Evelyn Fox Keller, author of \u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wilson’s writing is eloquent, considered and thought provoking. . . . In one of her articles, Wilson urged her readers to buy a copy of \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of Species \u003c\/i\u003eas an important feminist text. I certainly endorse this suggestion, but I add my own: buy a copy of \u003ci\u003ePsychosomatic\u003c\/i\u003e, as it may turn out to be one of the most inspiring feminist works you will read.” -- Myra J. Hird * Feminist Theory *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Somatic Compliance 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Freud, Prozac, and Melancholic Neurology 15\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Brain in the Gut 31\u003cbr\u003e 3. Hypothalamic Preference: LeVay’s Study of Sexual Orientation 49\u003cbr\u003e 4. Trembling, Blushing: Darwin’s Nervous System 63\u003cbr\u003e 5. Emotional Lizards: Evolution and the Reptilian Brain 79\u003cbr\u003e Notes 97\u003cbr\u003e References 113\u003cbr\u003e Index 123","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406036148567,"sku":"9780822333654","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/psychosomatic-9780822333654","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}