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HEADHUNTERS: THE SEARCH FOR A SCIENCE OF THE MIND

Book ID/图书代码: 00200014B69340

English Summary/英文概要: How did the human brain evolve? Why did it evolve as it did? What is man’s place in evolution? In the final decades of the nineteenth century, these questions began to occupy scientists. With Darwin’s theory of evolution now accepted, modern neuroscience began.

Headhunters traces the intellectual journey of four men who met at Cambridge in the 1890s and whose lives interlinked for the next three decades - William Rivers, Grafton Elliot Smith, Charles Myers and William McDougall. It follows their voyages of discovery, taking the reader from anthropological field studies in Melanesia and archaeological excavations in Egypt to the psychiatric wards of the First World War. Their work ranged across fields that today carry a variety of labels - neurology, psychology, psychiatry, zoology - but which for these men formed part of the same enquiry: the search for a science of the mind.

A narrative-driven work of intellectual history and a compelling biographical study, Headhunters explores the big ideas about the brain, the nervous system and man’s place in history. In the process the book reveals how science actually works - the passions, the irrational flashes, the moments of insight; the big ideas that work - and the big ideas that turn out to be wrong. Acclaimed historian Ben Shephard takes the reader on an extraordinary intellectual journey - and arrives at some very modern destinations.

Chinese Summary/中文概要: 從表象看,我們如今生活在一個全新時代,所有舊偶像都已經死了——民族主義、精神分析和基督教都已經不再是冷靜穩定的力量來源,取而代之的是,當代知識份子世界正在被兩種現象所主導,即新達爾文主義遺傳學和現代神經科學,這番景象和1890年代是何其相似。
——薛法德

人類的腦如何進化?為什麼如此進化?進化的過程中人類扮演甚麼樣的角色?十九世紀末,這些問題逐漸占據科學家的心中,隨著達爾文的進化論被接受,現代神經科學的時代來臨。 《獵頭族》回溯1890年代一場知識的冒險,四位於劍橋認識的知識份子的命運於接下來三十幾年緊緊連結——威廉.瑞佛斯、葛拉弗頓.艾略特.史密施、查爾斯.梅耶斯、威廉.麥克。

本書跟隨他們的發現之旅,帶領讀者從美拉尼西亞的人類學田野調查、埃及考古挖掘到一次大戰的精神病房。他們四人工作所囊括的範圍,是現今形形色色的領域——神經學、心理學、精神病學、動物學——但對於他們而言,這些學科都在探尋同一件事:心理科學研究。

《獵頭族》以說故事的方式,寫出一段思想史與引人入勝的傳記研究,展開一場對於腦、神經以及人類歷史地位的重要思維的冒險。這本書揭露科學真正如何運作——透過熱情、非理性的靈光一閃、以及洞見產生的時刻,此外也展現現今仍適用的重要思想和原本適用、之後卻證明是錯誤的思想。備受讚譽的歷史學家班.薛法德帶領讀者展開一場知識探索的非凡旅程,直到抵達極近當代的目的地。(Ramona)

Awards/获奖情况:知識豐富且引人入勝……一本睿智、令人愉快的書
——道格.約翰史東,Big Issue

充滿魅力,具啟發性……這是一本精巧的傑作——是傳記,也是思想史——這提醒我們了解自己是多麼困難。
——亨利.馬許,《泰晤士報》

關於現代人首次嘗試了解心靈的神祕面紗,豐富、刺激的記述。
——奧蘭多.畢爾德《金融時報》

這本書將一項重大意義賦予人類科學鍛造過程。
——夏洛蒂.史萊, BBC History Magazine

About the Author/作者介绍: 作者 班.薛法德 Ben Shephard
BBC節目《二戰全史》(World at War)與《核能時代》(The Nuclear Age)製作人,曾為BBC及Channel Four製作過許多紀錄片,現居布里斯托。著有《神經戰爭:軍人及精神科醫生,1914-1994》(War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists, 1914-1994)、《黎明之後:1945貝爾森集中營的解放》(After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945)、《漫漫歸途:二戰之後》(The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War)。

Ben Shephard was a producer on World at War and The Nuclear Age and has made numerous documentaries for the BBC and Channel Four. He is the author of the critically acclaimed War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists, 1914-1994, After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945 and The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War (Bodley Head, 2010). He lives in Bristol.

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