Reviews for Fetus and Neonate - Physiology and Clinical Applications: The Circulation (Volume 1), Vol. 1

The average rating for Fetus and Neonate - Physiology and Clinical Applications: The Circulation (Volume 1), Vol. 1 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-12 00:00:00 Ray Mond Jeremy Hayward is a good writer, the only kind I read. Because he's good I got over the fact that we don't share the same esoteric perception - beyond that, it's a good read.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-06-30 00:00:00 Keith Bradford I approached this book with high hopes - after reading Iain McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary, I was ready to dig into Stephen Hall's Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience. Almost immediately I realized I was going to be disappointed. Hall opens with a montage of dropping his daughter off at school, then watching a jet fly into the World Trade Center. "Almost immediately black smoke began to curl out of the cruel, grinning incision its wings had sliced in the façade of the skyscraper." I was reminded of Art Spiegelman's disturbing In the Shadow of No Towers (essentially the same opening) - and one graphic account is plenty. You always know a discussion is headed downhill when either Hitler or 9/11 is evoked. The next chapter focuses on the pre-Socratics and the "Axial Age" - although "focuses" is the wrong verb. The ancient Greeks are difficult even in a more extended study; Hall's survey is a mashup. After that I started skipping through the book, reading intermittently - and realized he'd lost me. Two days after I'd bought Wisdom, it was on the "for resale" pile. Hall is a science journalist, so my disappointment is my own fault. I'd rather have more philosophy and science, and fewer "telling" personal anecdotes. I should have read a bit more while standing in the bookstore.