Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system? In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert provides startling and decisive answers to these and other challenging questions that scientists and philosophers h...(展开全部)

What is the relationship between our perceptions and reality? What is the relationship between the mind and the body? These are questions with which philosophers have grappled for centuries, and they are topics of considerable contemporary debate as well. Hilary Putnam has approached the divisions between perception and reality and between mind and body with great creativity th...(展开全部)

Medicine as Culture is unlike any other sociological text on health and medicine. For many lecturers and students the book has become a classic text, which combines perspectives drawn from a wide variety of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, social history and cultural studies. The aim of the book is to tease out how medicine and health care are sociocultural constr...(展开全部)

乔纳森·韦斯特法尔（Jonathan Westphal），爱达荷州立大学哲学教授，致力于心灵哲学、形而上学、科学哲学、逻辑与语言哲学，以及美学研究等。在哲学史上，他主要研究维特根斯坦与莱布尼兹。

Believing that mind-body theories will offer a unified account of mind in its relation to body, Cynthia Macdonald traces the complex history of this theory and focuses on the different arguments of J.J.C. Smart and David Lewis among others. This book should be of interest to advanced students and lecturers of philosophy.

辛西娅·麦克唐纳，牛津大学哲学博士，曾先后在英国曼彻斯特大学、荷兰乌德勒支大学、新西兰坎特伯雷大学、英国贝尔法斯特女王大学任教，2011年后任英国曼彻斯特大学社会科学学院哲学教授，主要研究领域为形而上学与心灵哲学的交叉领域和认知科学，尤其是其中的心理因果关系、心理学解释的本质、外在主义和自我认识方面，发表论文50余篇，代表性著作有《各种各样的事物：当代形而上学的基础》和《心身同一论》等，是当代最为重要的心灵哲学家之一。

This first extensive study of Spinoza's philosophy of mind concentrates on two problems crucial to the philosopher's thoughts on the matter: the requirements for having a thought about a particular object, and the problem of the mind's relation to the body. Della Rocca contends that Spinoza's positions are systematically connected with each other and with a principle at the hea...(展开全部)

In Body Maps, Lan A. Li unveils a rich history of the hidden landscapes of the human body. This compelling study explores the world of "invisible" anatomy, explaining how hand-drawn body maps have shaped our understanding of the human form across cultures and centuries. From the meridian charts in East Asian medicine to neurophysiological illustrations, Body Maps traces the evo...(展开全部)