Lousy sex

Lousy sex

by Callahan, Gerald N.

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"In Lousy Sex Gerald Callahan explores the science of self, illustrating the immune system's role in forming individual identity. Blending the scientific essay with deeply personal narratives, these poignant and enlightening stories use microbiology and immunology to explore a new way to answer the question, who am I? "Self" has many definitions. Science has demonstrated that 90 percent of the cells in our bodies are bacteria--we are in many respects more non-self than self. In Lousy Sex, Calla…

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  • Full title :Lousy sex / Gerald N. Callahan.

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"In Lousy Sex Gerald Callahan explores the science of self, illustrating the immune system's role in forming individual identity. Blending the scientific essay with deeply personal narratives, these poignant and enlightening stories use microbiology and immunology to explore a new way to answer the question, who am I? "Self" has many definitions. Science has demonstrated that 90 percent of the cells in our bodies are bacteria--we are in many respects more non-self than self. In Lousy Sex, Callahan considers this microbio-neuro perspective on human identity together with the soulful, social perception of self, drawing on both art and science to fully illuminate this relationship. In his stories about where we came from and who we are, Callahan uses autobiographical episodes to illustrate his scientific points. Through stories about the sex lives of wood lice, the biological advantages of eating dirt, the question of immortality, the relationship between syphilis and the musical genius of Beethoven, and more, this book creates another way, a chimeric way, of seeing ourselves. The general reader with an interest in science will find Lousy Sex fascinating"--

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  • Publication Date:2013

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  • Description:1 online resource

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  • ISBN:9781607322337, 1607322331, 9781457181368, 1457181363, 9781457181344, 1457181347
  • oclc:ocn849928871
  • LC Classification:RC489.S43
  • Dewey Decimal:613

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Leonardo's Dream -- Origins: Where Comes From -- 1. First Self -- 2. Layers of Self -- 3. Self in the Soil -- 4. Gathering Our Selves -- Middles: Childhood's End -- 5. The Opposite of Sex -- 6. Lousy Sex -- 7. The Wizards of? -- 8. Dreams of the Blind -- This Is Not the End: Facing Up to Our Immortality -- 9. The Mysterious Visions of Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck -- 10. The Rock Collector -- 11. On the Lip of Immortality -- Epilogue

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Subjects

Biological Psychiatry Ego HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference Identification (Psychologie) Identification (Psychology) Identification, Psychological Identité (Psychologie) Identity (Psychology) Immune system Individualité Individuality MEDICAL -- Immunology MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine Moi (Psychologie) Perception de soi Psychanalyse Psychiatrie biologique Psychoanalysis

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Callahan, Gerald N.

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