What Scientists Think

by Stangroom; Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9780415334266
• ISBN10: 0415334268
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What are leading scientists working on now? What do they think about the working of the brain, climate change, animal experimentation, cancer, and mental illness? Is science progressing or in retreat? Is this century humankind's last? These are just some of the compelling questions discussed by twelve of world's leading scientists and scientific thinkers in this fascinating book. In engaging and lucid discussion, they clarify many of the complex scientific challenges and dilemmas facing science today. They also explain what drives their interest in science, revealing something of the often-neglected personal side of science. Steven Pinker Evolutionary Psychology Robin Murray Psychiatry and Schizophrenia Kevin Warwick Cybernetics Susan Greenfield The Brain and Human Consciousness Norman Levitt Science under Threat E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Steve Jones Genes Dorothy Crawford Viruses and their Threats Michael Stratton Cancer Research MartinRees Science: Its Dangers and Its Public Colin Blakemore Medical Research, Animal Experimentation and Science John Polkinghorne Science and Religion

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vi
The Scientists	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Interviews
Darwinism and Genes	p. 8
Evolutionary Psychology and the Blank Slate	p. 23
The Human Brain and Consciousness	p. 37
Science and the Human Animal	p. 51
Cybernetics and a Post-Human Future	p. 66
Psychiatry and Schizophrenia	p. 79
Microbiology, Viruses and Their Threats	p. 97
On Cancer Research	p. 111
Animal Experimentation, Ethics and Medical Research	p. 125
Science Under Threat	p. 140
Biodiversity	p. 155
Science: Its Dangers and Its Public	p. 169
Further Reading	p. 183
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