| 词条 | Robert M. Young (academic) |
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Robert Maxwell Young, usually known as Robert M. Young or Bob Young (born September 26, 1935 in Highland Park, a suburb of Dallas, Texas), is a historian of science specialising in the 19th century and particularly Darwinian thought, a philosopher of the biological and human sciences, and a Kleinian psychotherapist. CareerYoung's initial education was in the United States, at Yale University and the University of Rochester Medical School, but in 1960 he moved to the University of Cambridge for his PhD on the history of ideas of mind and brain. The resulting monograph, Mind, Brain and Adaptation, has been called 'a modern classic' by Peter Gay.[1] From 1964 to 1976 he was a Fellow and Graduate Tutor of King's College, Cambridge and became the first Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine set up within the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. From 1976 to 1983 he was a full-time writer. In this period much of his political activities and writing involved radical critiques of science, technology and medicine. His contribution in this area has been compared by historian Gary Werskey with that of J. D. Bernal (While this is Werskey's opinion, it was not, according to Francis Aprahamian, Bernal's research assistant for "Science in History", a view shared by J.D. Bernal himself (personal communication F.A.) Instead Bernal saw Steven Rose a natural scientist, outspokenly left wing and active in the Anti-Vietnam War movement as a younger version of himself.)[2] ThoughtIn various books and papers he has argued that science, technology and medicine—far from being value-neutral—are the embodiment of values in theories, things and therapies, in facts and artefacts, in procedures and programs. Succinctly put, all facts are theory-laden, all theories are value-laden, and all values occur within an ideology or world view. Scientists and technologists pursue agendas; they have philosophies of nature, world views, usually tacitly held. In studies extending across a broad spectrum of disciplines he has argued that our culture is disastrously riven. It is characterised by sharp dichotomies, each and every one of which is a false (or, at least, overdrawn) dichotomy, but our beliefs in them preclude unified deliberations about the scientific and the moral: humanities - science society - science culture - nature qualitative - quantitative value - fact purpose - mechanism subject - object internal - external secondary- primary (qualities) thought - extension mind - body character - behaviour In order to foster such unified deliberations he set up the publishing house Free Association Books which (while he directed it) published in the areas of cultural theory, critiques of expertise, and psychoanalysis, broadly conceived. The press has been called, inter alia, 'the most important influence on the culture of psychoanalysis since the war' (by Andrew Samuels).{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}} He also trained as a Kleinian psychoanalytic psychotherapist and began writing on psychoanalysis, but he continued writing and editing in the areas of social theory, the philosophy of science and Darwinian thought and its impact on culture. He then became the first professor of Psychoanalytic Studies and of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, posts he held at the Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies at the University of Sheffield Medical School until his retirement, after which he has worked in private practice in London. He is a retired registrant of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The unifying thread in his research, political activities, writing and clinical practice has been the understanding of human nature and the alleviation of suffering and inequality. His work has largely been interdisciplinary, seeking to promote unity in how we think about nature, human nature and culture. In addition to his books, listed below, he has written numerous scholarly and popular articles, as well as making a number of television documentaries in the series Crucible: Science in Society. He also founded (usually with others) Free Association Books, Process Press, Radical Science Journal, Science as Culture, Free Associations and Kleinian Studies, as well as a number of email forums and egroups in his areas of interest and the websites. Personal lifeIn 1964, Young married Sheila Ernst, with whom he lived for a time in a commune in Chesterton.[3][4][5] Bibliography
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References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com/rmyoung/pubs.html|title=Psychoanalysis Psychotherapy|website=Psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com|accessdate=9 February 2019}} 2. ^{{cite web|author=Academic Computing Services |url=http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/werskey.html |title=The Marxist Critique of Capitalist Science: A History in Three Movements? by Gary Werskey |publisher=Human-nature.com |date=2007-03-01 |accessdate=2017-01-15}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com/rmyoung/persinfo.html|title=Psychoanalysis Psychotherapy|website=Psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com|accessdate=9 February 2019}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/24/sheila-ernst|title=Sheila Ernst obituary|first=Joanna|last=Ryan|date=24 March 2015|accessdate=9 February 2019|website=Theguardian.com}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.cfr.cam.ac.uk/news/news-pre-march-2017|title=News pre May 2017 — Centre for Family Research|accessdate=9 February 2019|website=Cfr.cam.ac.uk}} External links{{Wikiquote}}
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