Headhunters - Hardcover

Ben Shephard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847921884 ISBN 13: 9781847921888

Publisher: Bodley Head, 2014

Synopsis

How did the human brain evolve, and why? What is man's place in evolution? Once Darwin's theories were in place, these questions began to occupy scientists. Historian and BBC documentary presenter Ben Shephard traces the intellectual journey of four men-William Rivers, Grafton Elliot Smith, Charles Myers and William McDougall-who met at Cambridge in the 1890s. Shephard follows their voyages of discovery, taking us from anthropological field studies in Melanesia and archaeological excavations in Egypt to the psychiatric wards of World War I. Today we would classify their work as neurology, psychology, psychiatry, and zoology, but for these men it was simply the search for a science of the mind.

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About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bodley Head
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1847921884
• ISBN 13: 9781847921888
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352