Research Catalog

Title

Gregory Bateson : the legacy of a scientist / by David Lipset.

Author

Lipset, David, 1951-

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1980.

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Details

Description

xii, 360 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

About the life of the social scientist who developed the "double bind" theory of schizophrenia, concentrates on his intellectual development and contributions to the understanding of human behavior.

Subject

• Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980
• Bates family
• Anthropologists > Biography
• Psychologists > Biography
• Anthropology > history
• Psychology > history

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biographies.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 338-354.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1: The Batesons of St. John's College: Between determinisms: Samuel Butler -- A geneticist's ancestry -- Early genetics -- A didactic family -- Before the war -- Boarding school -- William and Martin Bateson -- A tear is an intellectual thing -- Pt. 2: The invisible scientist: As youngest son in Cambridge -- As anthropologist -- Deus ex Machina: cybernetics -- As communications theorist -- As ethologist -- The ecology of mind -- As man of knowledge.

ISBN

0133650561

LCCN

^^^79027562^

OCLC

• 5894222
• SCSB-10126204

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library