Hearts and Minds: Reclaiming the Soul of Science and Medicine - Softcover

Alexander, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1584209194 ISBN 13: 9781584209195

Publisher: Lindisfarne Books, 2019

Synopsis

The great scientific revolution of the last five hundred years, with its technological glories and medical miracles, has landed upon a set of summary conclusions―or some slightly tweaked variations―depicting a random, indifferent, and wholly impersonal cosmos.

The world, we are told, is made up of particles and forces. Evolution, impelled by the single purpose of survival, is guided by chance through natural selection. DNA directs the chemical–mechanical unfolding of life. Consciousness and self, artifacts of the brain's firing neurons, are essentially inconsequential.

This is a picture that has been fraying at the edges for some time. Progress in medicine, quantum physics, open-systems biology, consciousness studies, epistemology, the arts and philosophy all point in a radically different direction. But fresh, coherent narratives have not yet fully emerged out of this progress, and so the old model stubbornly endures.

Hearts and Minds tells a tale of emerging discoveries―discoveries that restore our own self and consciousness as integral to the workings of the world.

About this title

About the Author:

WALTER ALEXANDER, a New York City–based veteran medical journalist, covers clinical research across a range of specialties, including cardiology, oncology, and integrative medicine. After beginning in fiction and education, his writing career, as evidenced in Hearts and Minds (2019), reflects Walter's lifelong interests in his studies of the life sciences and medicine, astronomy, music, literature, the visual arts, epistemology, and consciousness.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1584209194
• ISBN 13: 9781584209195
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328