My Account Wish List
Advanced Search
Print - Close Window
www.greenwood.com/catalog/C4608.aspx
All Greenwood Products
Hormones, Sex, and Society The Science of Physicology
(Click to Enlarge)
This book is not currently available for purchase Online. Please call 1-800-225-5800 to backorder.
Helmuth Nyborg
Foreword by Bruce S. McEwen
Book Code: C4608
ISBN: 0-275-94608-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94608-1
256 pages, figures, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/1994
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • ...well written, reads easily, and is very convincing....this is an important contribution to psychology and neuroscience.
    —
    Institute of Psychiatry
Description: Nyborg sets out to prove that classic ideas of the mind, learning, and memory must be re-examined through the lens of modern biology. Neuroscience and the biological and biomedical sciences have advanced far beyond the limits of 19th century neuroanatomy, and we now know that chemical neurotransmitters and circulating hormones act to alter electrical brain activity and structure. At the same time heredity is now recognized to be not as omnipotent as in the "Nature/Nurture" debate of the last century. Nyborg examines these issues, and he shows that recent research in the molecular and brain sciences makes it possible to develop alternative research programs that apply empirical, quantitative, natural science principles and methods in order to unravel intricate problems like human nature and society. He concludes this work with a new approach--Physicology--the study of physico-chemical processes behind body, brain, behavior, and society. This book will be of great interest to behavioral scientists, and all concerned with the impact of physico-chemical processes on the changes in ourselves and our societies.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • General introduction
  • Mentalistic Approaches to Human Nature and Society
  • The Physicological Research Program
  • The Physicological Analysis of Sexual Differentiation (SD)
  • Intrasystemic Hormone Effects
  • Evolution and Ultimate Causes of SD
  • The Proximate Cause of Sexual Differentiation
  • Permanent Organizational Effects of Sex Hormones
  • Transient Effects of Sex Hormones
  • Conversion of One Sex Hormone into Another
  • Intermediate Brain Estradiol Concentrations
  • Sex Hormones as Harmonizers of Body, Brain, and Behavioral Development
  • Origin of Sexual Differentiation of the Fetus
  • Cerebral E2 and SD of the Brain
  • Universal Economy and Fixed Budgets
  • Sex Hormones and Individual Variability
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
LC Card Number: 94-8640
LCC Class: QP356
Dewey Class: 612.6
All rights reserved. Copyright © 1999-2008 Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881, (203) 226-3571