The Science of Life: Andrew Huxley, Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow
is part of the series Creative Lives and Works. It is a collection of
interviews conducted by one of England's leading social anthropologists
and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of 40
years, the three conversations in this volume are part of a larger set
of interviews that cut across various disciplines--from the social
sciences, the sciences, to the performing and visual arts. The current
volume on two of England's foremost physiologists and a vision scientist
is yet another addition to the series of several such books.
These Cambridge men of science, Sir Andrew Huxley, Richard Keynes and
Horace Barlow, apart from shaping certain very fundamental and critical
elements in the disciplines of Physiology and Neuroscience also belong
to illustrious lineages. Sir Andrew Huxley, for instance is a direct
descendant of T.H. Huxley, while Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow are
both the great grandsons of Charles Darwin.
Their conversations greatly expand our understanding of physiology and
neuroscience. The book will be of very great value not just to those
interested in Physiology, Medicine and Neuroscience. The interviews also
take us into a fascinating period of Cambridge Science, dominated by
certain key families of distinguished thinkers.
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