LIVING PROOF – A MEDICAL MUTINY
In Spring 1994, 54-year old Michael Gearin-Tosh was diagnosed with incurable multiple myeloma (cancer of the blood and immune system). The survival prognosis cited was…… Read More »
Book Reviews
The Synaptic Self
This book comes from an impeccable source. Joseph LeDoux is the Director of the National Institute of Health in Washington USA and thus a powerful…… Read More »
Brain, Vision, Memory
Charlie Gross is distinguished for his discovery of face-selective neurons in the temporal cortex of primates, which he wittily describes in the final chapter of…… Read More »
Nature Loves to Hide
This is an ambitious book, that starts from quantum physics, incorporates Whitehead's process philosophy, and then suggests that some ideas from Plotinus are relevant to…… Read More »
Science, Order and Creativity
I suspect I am not alone in feeling that David Bohm has some extremely interesting ideas that I would like to understand, but also in…… Read More »
Human Nature and the Limits of Science
This book's blurb says that it is `a provocative, witty and persuasive corrective to scientism' and this time the blurb is quite right. John Dupré's…… Read More »
Music Healing in Cultural Contexts
David reviewed this book together with another. The review below covers both.Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy since AntiquityPeregrine Horden These books are…… Read More »
Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy since Antiquity
David reviewed this book together with another. The review below covers both.Music Healing in Cultural ContextsPenelope Gouk These books are companion volumes on the transformation,…… Read More »
On Death, Dying and Not Dying
This is a searing and profound account of Peter Houghton's nearing death experience and his subsequent re-emergence as a result of taking part in a…… Read More »
Progressive Endings
Some readers may not be aware that Nicholas Albery, not himself a car owner, was killed in a crash in June this year. He is…… Read More »