Against biological determinism / The Dialectics of Biology Group ; general editor, Steven Rose.

Contributor Rose, Steven P. R. (Steven Peter Russell), 1938-

Imprint:London ; New York : Allison & Busby ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed in the USA by Schocken Books, 1982.

Description184 p. ; 20 cm.

Note:Papers presented at a conference held in Bressanone, Italy, Mar. 26-30, 1980.

Note:Biology and ideology : the uses of reductionism / Martin Barker -- Human nature and social explanation / Janna L. Thompson -- On oppositions to reductionism / Hilary Rose and Steven Rose -- Cleaving the mind : speculations on conceptual dichotomies / Lynda Birke -- The ideology of medicine / Lesley Rogers -- Disease models and reductionist thinking in the biomedical sciences / Giorgio Bignami -- Hierarchical structures and structural descriptions / Giacomo Gava -- Holism and reductionism are compatible / Allan Muir -- Matter, information and their interaction in memory processes / Lauro Galzigna -- Reduction reassessed / Werner Callebaut.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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