Jonathan Burns

Gebundenes Buch

The Descent of Madness

Evolutionary Origins of Psychosis and the Social Brain

Beschreibung

This book advances a radical new hypothesis: that madness exists as a costly consequence of the evolution of a sophisticated social brain in Homo sapiens.

Autor

Jonathan Burns is chief specialist psychiatrist at the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine. His main areas of research include psychotic illnesses, human brain evolution and evolutionary origins of psychosis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781583917428
• ISBN-10: 158391742X
• Artikelnr.: 21879639