Books for Review on Metapsychology Online
Christian Perring
Metapsychology Online Review. Either Ph.D. or ABD in
Philosophy, Psychology, or other behavioral sciences is
preferable. Ideally reviews should draw connections between
the subject of the book and issues in mental health,
psychopathology, normality or emotions.
Guidelines at
http://www.geocities.com/cperring/revguide.htm
Deadline: July 1, 2003
If interested, please e-mail me at
CPER...@YAHOO.COM with
* your name
* e-mail address
* mailing address (even if you have given it previously)
* list of books you are interested in (the more you list,
the more likely you can get a book to review)
* an explanation of your competence to review the books
(especially for books that many people are likely to want
to review)
* details of your ability to write for a general audience
Please note that due to new regulations on sending
international mail, it is not feasible for us to send books
over 1 lb in weight to reviewers outside the US.
Please do NOT send me any large attachments with CVs etc --
my mailbox will soon reach its size limit.
Departing from Deviance
A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in
America
Henry Minton
University of Chicago Press 2002 344 pages
Behind Closed Doors
the Art of Hans Bellmer
Therese Lichtenstein
University of California Press 2001 254 pages
Reload
Rethinking Women + Culture
Mary Flanagan + Austin Booth (eds)
MIT Press 2002 581 pages
The Portable Kristeva
Updated Edition
Kelly Olliver (ed)
University of Columbia Press 2002 466 pages
Spirit & Psyche
A New Paradigm for Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and
Psychotherapy
Victor Schermer
JKP 2003 272 pages
Inventing Personality
Gordon Alport and the Science of Selfhood
Ian Nicholson
American Psychological Association 2003 300 pages
Reading Psychoanalysis
Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck
Peter Rudnytsky
Cornell University Press 2002 310 pages
The Fasting Girl
A True Victorian Medical Mystery
Michelle Stacey
Tarcher/Putnam 2002 334 pages
The Science Wars
Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology
Keith Parsons (ed)
Prometheus Books 2003 325 pages
The Subject of Care
Feminist Perspectives on Dependency
Eva Feder Kittay & Ellen K Feder
Rowman & Littlefield 2002 382 pages
Brave New Bioethics
Gregory E. Pence
Rowman & Littlefield 2002 174 pages
The Future is Now
America Confronts the New Genetics
William Krystol & Eric Cohen (eds)
Rowman & Littlefield 2002 353 pages
Conceptual Art
and the politics of publicity
Alexander Alberro
MIT Press 2003 235 pages
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Centenary Essays
Michel Ferrari (ed)
Imprint Academic 2002 149 pages
How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains? Max Velmans
Imprint Academic 2002 95 pages
The Philosophical I
Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy
George Yancy (ed)
Rowman & Littlefield 2002 293 pages
Nature Via Nurture
Genes, Experience & What Makes Us Human
Matt Ridley
HarperCollins 2003 305 pages
The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines
Pentti Haikonen
Imprint Academic 2003 283 pages
Essays on Nonconceptual Content
York Gunther (ed)
MIT Press 2003 339 pages
The Structure of Thinking
A process-oriented account of mind
Laura Weed
Imprint Academic 2003 248 pages
History of the Concept of Mind
Speculations about Soul, Mind, and Spirit from Homer to
Hume
Paul Macdonald
Ashgate Press 2003 395 pages
Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language
Maxim Stamenov and Vittoria Gallese
John Benjamins 2002 390 pages
Language, Vision and Music
Paul McKevitt et al (eds)
John Benjamins 2002 433 pages
Ways of Knowing
A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine
John Pickstone
University of Chicago Press 2000 270 pages
Thomas Kuhn
A Philosophical History for our Times
Steve Fuller
University of Chicago Press 2000 471 pages
How Scientific Practices Matter
Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism
Joseph Rouse
University of Chicago Press 2002 382 pages
The Postnational Self
Belonging and Identity
U Hedetoft & M Hjort (eds)
University of Minnesota Press 2002 317 pages
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New reviews are listed at
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=li&cat=new_reviews
Philosophy reviews are at
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=li&cat=philosophy
Recent reviews with philosophical/bioethical relevance:
Meaning
A Play Based on the Life of Viktor E. Frankl
by Rubin Battino
Review by Mark Welch, Ph.D. on Feb 26th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1578
Public Health Law and Ethics
A Reader
by Lawrence O. Gostin
Review by Albert D. Spalding, JD on Feb 26th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1579
Modern Theories of Justice
by Serge-Christophe Kolm
Review by James Sauer, Ph.D. on Feb 27th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1580
Consciousness Evolving
Advances in Consciousness Research, volume 34.
by James H. Fetzer (Editor)
Review by Paul Gatto on Feb 27th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1581
The Misunderstood Gene
by Michel Morange
Review by Lloyd A. Wells, Ph.D., M.D. on Mar 3rd 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1586
Origins of Psychopathology
The Phylogenetic and Cultural Basis of Mental Illness
by Horacio Fábrega, Jr.
Review by Peter B. Raabe Ph.D. on Mar 3rd 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1587
Conducting Insanity Evaluations
Second Edition
by Richard Rogers and Daniel Shuman
Review by Kari Karsjens, JD on Mar 4th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1589
How Emotions Work
by Jack Katz
Review by Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Ph.D. on Mar 7th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1592
Reading Autobiography
A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives
by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
Review by William Cowling on Mar 10th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1595
Personhood and Health Care
by David C. Thomasma, David N. Weisstub and Christian Herve
(editors)
Review by Christopher Newell, Ph.D. on Mar 11th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1596
Lack of Character
Personality and Moral Behavior
by John M. Doris
Review by Sylvia Burrow on Mar 13th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1597
A Stroll With William James
by Jacques Barzun
Review by Lara Winner, M.A. on Mar 13th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1598
Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition
An Anthology
by Robert C. Scharff and Val Dusek (editors)
Review by Avshalom M. Adam, Ph.D. on Mar 17th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1603
Cyborg Citizen
Politics in the Posthuman Age
by Chris Hables Gray
Review by Ian Stoner on Mar 19th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1604
Responsible Genetics
The Moral Responsibility of Geneticists for the
Consequences of Human Genetics Research
by Anders Nordgren
Review by Arantza Etxeberria, Ph.D. on Mar 20th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1607
Neurological Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience
by Mark D'Esposito (editor)
Review by Liam Dempsey on Mar 24th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1612
Thanks,
Christian Perring
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