Ivan Pavlov : a Russian life in science / Daniel P. Todes.
Todes, Daniel Philip.
2014
QP26.P35 T627 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Ivan Pavlov : a Russian life in science / Daniel P. Todes.
Author Todes, Daniel Philip.
ISBN 9780199925193 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
0199925194 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Description xix, 855 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number QP26.P35 T627 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 153.1/526
Summary "Using a wide variety of previously unavailable archival materials, Todes tells a vivid story of that life and redefines Pavlov's legacy. Pavlov was not, in fact, a behaviorist who believed that psychology should address only external behaviors; rather, he sought to explain the emotional and intellectual life of animals and humans, "the torments of our consciousness." This iconic "objectivist" was actually a profoundly anthropomorphic thinker whose science was suffused with his own experiences, values, and subjective interpretations. Todes's story of this powerful personality and extraordinary man is based upon interviews with surviving coworkers and family members (along with never-before-analyzed taped interviews from the 1960s and 1970s), examination of hundreds of scientific works by Pavlov and his coworkers, and close analysis of materials from some twenty-five archives. The materials range from the records of his student years at Riazan Seminary to the transcripts of the Communist Party cells in his labs, and from his scientific manuscripts and notebooks to his political speeches; they include revealing love letters to his future wife and correspondence with hundreds of scholars, artists, and Communist Party leaders; and memoirs by many coworkers, his daughter, his wife, and his lover." -- Publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 817-839) and index.
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PART ONE: The Seminarian Chooses Science (1849-1874)
1. The Pavlovs of Riazan
2. Seminarian in the Sixties
3. Student in St. Petersburg
PART TWO: Wilderness Years (1875-1890)
4. The Reluctant Physician
5. Serafima Vasil'evna Karchevskaia
6. Time of Troubles
7. In From the Cold
PART THREE: Man of Tsarist Science (1891-1904)
8. A Non-Chekhovian Type
9. The Pavlovs of St. Petersburg
10. Professor of Physiology
11. The Physiology Factory: Forces of Production
12. The Physiology Factory: Relations of Production
13. Favorite Dogs
14. A Convincing Synthesis
15. Dacha Life
16. A European Reputation
17. Targeting the Psyche
18. The Nobel Prize
PART FOUR: Nobelist in the Silver Age (1905-1914)
19. Amid Russia's Political Crisis
20. Family Life
21. Pavlov's Quest
22. The Factory Retooled
23. Battle of the Titans
24. Women Coworkers and the Physiology of Emotion
25. Maria Kapitonovna Petrova
PART FIVE: War and Revolution (1914-1921)
26. War
27. Revolution
28. Cataclysm
29. Where Are You, Freedom?
30. To Leave My Homeland
PART SIX: Prosperous Dissident (1922-1929)
31. The Pavlovs of Leningrad
32. A Great Journey
33. Laboratory Revival
34. Lecturing the Bolsheviks and Leaving the Academy
35. The Commissar and the Dialectician
36. Freud, the Flood, and the Physiology of Personality
37. Two Books and a Beast
38. Types, Temperament, and Character
39. Work and Play in City and Countryside
40. On the Eve of the Great Break
PART SEVEN: Icon of Soviet and World Science (1929-1936)
41. International Celebrity
42. Stalin Times
43. Pavlov's Communists
44. Koltushi: Pavlov's Science Village
45. Psychiatry
46. Gestalt Pavlov-Style
47. Year of Climaxes
48. At the Summit: The International Physiology Congress
49. Final Days.

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