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Brain Advance Access originally published online on March 2, 2009
Brain 2009 132(6):1678-1681; doi:10.1093/brain/awp019
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Book Review

The muddle of embodiment

James le Fanu

General Practitioner and columnist for the Telegraph E-mail: james.lefanu@btinternet.com

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For biology, and science generally, this is both ‘the best of times and the worst of times’. The best of times because its prestige has never been greater, the scale of its research institutions never more impressive and its financial support never more lavish. Yet, this is also the worst of times for when it is possible to say ‘this is how it happened’—this is how the universe and our solar system came into being, this is how the landscape of our earth was formed, this is the universal code of life and so on—then ‘the future’, what comes after, is likely to be something of an anticlimax. And there is too the perception that science for all its great intellectual achievements no longer has anything interesting to say about the human experience. Why should it be as the writer Bryan Appleyard observed that ‘in the maps provided by contemporary . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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