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Ivan Pavlov: A Very Short Introduction Audiobook, by Daniel P. Todes Play Audiobook Sample

Ivan Pavlov: A Very Short Introduction Audiobook

Ivan Pavlov: A Very Short Introduction Audiobook, by Daniel P. Todes Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Gary Tiedemann Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798765061985

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

9

Longest Chapter Length:

41:19 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

07:14 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

30:42 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Daniel P. Todes provides concise introduction to the life and science of the great Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936). Todes weaves together Pavlov's life, values, context, and science by focusing upon his quest to understand the psyche and the "torments of our consciousness."

This introduction follows the origins and maturation of Pavlov's quest from his early life in a priestly family in provincial Riazan, to his struggles and late professional success in the glittering capital of St. Petersburg, through the cataclysmic destruction of his world during the Bolshevik seizure of power and civil war of 1917-1921, to the rebuilding of his life in his 70s as a "prosperous dissident" during the Leninist 1920s, and his success and personal torments in 1929-1936 during the industrialization, cultural revolution, and terror of Stalin times.

Beyond a basic biography, Todes devotes particular attention to Pavlov's Nobel Prize-winning research on digestion (1891-1903) and his iconic studies of conditional reflexes and higher nervous activity (1903-1936), as well as his experiments with dogs. Todes shows that Pavlov was not a behaviorist, did not use a bell, and was uninterested in training dogs. The Russian scientist sought to explain not merely external behaviors, but the emotional and intellectual life of animals and humans.

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