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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460327203321

Autore

Todes Daniel Philip

Titolo

Ivan Pavlov : a Russian life in science / / Daniel P. Todes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-19-939444-X

0-19-992520-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (897 p.)

Disciplina

153.1/526

Soggetti

Physiologists - Russia (Federation)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Ivan Pavlov; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Sources; Preface; Plates; Introduction; PART ONE The Seminarian Chooses Science (1849-1875); Chapter 1. The Pavlovs of Riazan; Chapter 2. Seminarian in the Sixties; Chapter 3. Student in St. Petersburg; PART TWO Wilderness Years (1875-1890); Chapter 4. The Reluctant Physician; Chapter 5. Serafima Vasil'evna Karchevskaia; Chapter 6. Time of Troubles; Chapter 7. In From the Cold; PART THREE Man of Tsarist Science (1891-1904); Chapter 8. A Non-Chekhovian Type

Chapter 9. The Pavlovs of St. PetersburgChapter 10. Professor of Physiology; Chapter 11. The Physiology Factory: Forces of Production; Chapter 12. The Physiology Factory: Relations of Production; Chapter 13. Favorite Dogs; Chapter 14. A Convincing Synthesis; Chapter 15. Dacha Life; Chapter 16. A European Reputation; Chapter 17. Targeting the Psyche; Chapter 18. The Nobel Prize; PART FOUR Nobelist in the Silver Age (1905-1914); Chapter 19. Amid Russia's Political Crisis; Chapter 20. Family Life; Chapter 21. Pavlov's Quest; Chapter 22. The Factory Retooled; Chapter 23. Battle of Titans

Chapter 24. Women Coworkers and the Physiology of EmotionChapter 25. Maria Kapitonovna Petrova; PART FIVE War and Revolution (1914-1921); Chapter 26. War; Chapter 27. Revolution; Chapter 28.



Cataclysm; Chapter 29. Where Are You, Freedom?; Chapter 30.  "To Leave My Homeland"; PART SIX Prosperous Dissident (1922-1929); Chapter 31. The Pavlovs of Leningrad; Chapter 32. A Great Journey; Chapter 33. Laboratory Revival; Chapter 34. Lecturing the Bolsheviks and Leaving the Academy; Chapter 35. The Commissar and the Dialectician; Chapter 36. Freud, the Flood, and the Physiology of Personality

Chapter 37. Two Books and a BeastChapter 38. Types, Temperament, and Character; Chapter 39. Work and Play in City and Countryside; Chapter 40. On the Eve of the Great Break; PART SEVEN Icon of Soviet and World Science (1929-1936); Chapter 41. International Celebrit; Chapter 42. Stalin Times; Chapter 43. Pavlov's Communists; Chapter 44. Koltushi: Pavlov's Science Village; Chapter 45. Psychiatry; Chapter 46. Gestalt Pavlov Style; Chapter 47. Year of Climaxes; Chapter 48. At the Summit: The International Physiological Congress; Chapter 49. Final Days; Epilogue; Appendix: Pavlov's Lexicon; Notes

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

This is a definitive, deeply researched biography of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) and is the first scholarly biography to be published in any language. The book is Todes''s magnum opus, which he has been working on for some twenty years. Todes makes use of a wealth of archival material to portray Pavlov''s personality, life, times, and scientific work. Combining personal documents with a close reading of scientific texts, Todes fundamentally reinterprets Pavlov''s famous research on conditional reflexes. Contrary to legend, Pavlov was not a behaviorist (a misimpression captured