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OverviewWinner of the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society ""Contrary to legend, Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) never trained a dog to salivate to the sound of a bell.""So begins this definitive, deeply researched biography of Ivan Pavlov. Daniel P. Todes fundamentally reinterprets the Russian physiologist's famous research on conditional reflexes and weaves his life, values, and science into the tumultuous century of Russian history-particularly that of its intelligentsia-from the reign of tsar Nicholas I to Stalin's time. Ivan Pavlov was born to a family of priests in provincial Riazan before the serfs were emancipated, and made his home and professional success in the booming capital of St. Petersburg in late imperial Russia. He suffered the cataclysmic destruction of his world during the Bolshevik seizure of power and civil war of 1917-21, rebuilt his life in his seventies as a ""prosperous dissident"" during the Leninist 1920s, and flourished professionally as never before in the 1930s industrialization, revolution, and terror of Stalin times.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.The product of more than twenty years of research, this is the first scholarly biography of the physiologist to be published in any language. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel P. Todes (Professor, Institute of the History of Medicine, Professor, Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.70cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 1.420kg ISBN: 9780199925193ISBN 10: 0199925194 Pages: 880 Publication Date: 18 December 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction PART ONE: The Seminarian Chooses Science (1849-1874) 1. The Pavlovs of Riazan 2. Seminarian in the `Sixties 3. St. Petersburg University 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 NonChekhovian 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. Mariia 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 Epilogue Glossary BibliographyReviewsDavid Todes has spent more then twenty years with his subject, and has evidently approached his task with the same dedication that Pavlov kept up through his many decades in the lab. Tode's sources range from the whimsical and self-revealing journal with which Pavlov wooed his future wife in 1879 to NKVD surveillance reports on his mood more than half a century later, from documents on the student Pavlov's very first research into nervous control of the organs to taped interviews with his co-workers several decades after his death. The result is history of science at its intricate best. Stephen Lovell, The Times Literary Supplement Well written, thoroughly researched and extremely readable... Biologist Daniel P. Todes achieves a level of mastery that transforms biography into history... an exemplary work of scholarship Science, Stephen T. Casper a colossal work of scholarship and imagination Raymond Tallis, Book of the Year 2014, Times Literary Supplement Profoundly researched, densely detailed and likely to be definitive Nature [Historians] of the era may delight in the level of detail this book has to offer. -- Library Journal A comprehensive, nuanced picture of Pavlov's life and times and his seminal contributions to science. -- Kirkus Review This volume surely represents the most richly researched and assiduously documented biography of Ivan Pavlov that will ever be written. Many of Todes's revelations will profoundly change the conventional view of Pavlov, the man and the scientist. All serious students of behavioral and neural science should read this book. -Ed Wasserman, Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology, The University of Iowa One doesn't find biographies of this type much anymore, and that is a real shame. This book is the product of decades of research by Todes, and it shows. He has culled sources from archives in at least five countries and left out seemingly nothing of importance for understanding Pavlov. He knows his subject inside and out, and we get to know the scientist in these pages as if he were a person we've actually met. There is nothing like this book in any language-it is the definitive biography. -Michael D. Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton University This fine scholarly biography is destined to become the definitive study of Ivan Pavlov, the great Russian physiologist. Todes gives us a remarkable picture of Pavlov's scientific work during the tumultuous years of change and explores the wider cultural and historical context of Russian science in transition. Packed with new research and deep historical insight, this is a must-read for anyone intrigued by scientific achievement. -Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, author of Charles Darwin: A Biography Author InformationDaniel P. Todes is Professor of History of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Darwin Without Malthus: The Struggle for Existence in Russian Evolutionary Thought and two earlier books on Pavlov: Pavlov's Physiology Factory: Experiment, Interpretation, Laboratory Enterprise, and a short biography for young adults, Ivan Pavlov: Exploring the Animal Machine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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