Clive Mckay: A Man before his Time

A man of his country and his time: Jewish influences on Lev Semionovich Vygotsky's world view.

Lev Semionovich Vygotsky created the cultural-historical school of psychology, yet all too few of those writing about his work take into account the family, education, and cultural tradition from which he came. The authors contend that the Jewish nature of these elements was of some importance in forming his personality and his consciousness. The 1st part of the article traces his early upbring...

Man and his spaceships

The resiliency and adaptive ability of microbial life in real time on Earth relies heavily upon horizontal gene transfer. Based on that knowledge, how likely is earth based microbial life to colonize extraterrestrial targets such as Mars? To address this question, we consider manned and unmanned space exploration, the resident microbiota that is likely to inhabit those vehicles, the adaptive po...

Man and His Future

The subject matter of this Ciba symposium departs from the usual specialized, esoteric topics of these meetings. Bringing together such noted scientists as Sir Julian Huxley, Joshua Lederberg, Albert Szent-Gy6rgi, and J. B. S. Haldane, this conference discusses the future of mankind as seen through the eyes of people actively engaged in biological research. These men don the philosopher's hat a...

'…one man in his time plays many parts'.

The choice of image on the dust-jacket of this book is as inspired as its contents: a graffito sketch bearing an uncanny resemblance to Nero (complete with nose-hairs) from a taberna excavated in the SW substructures of the Domus Tiberiana. Its reproduction has been stripped of the later scribbles that encroach on the neck and the back of the head; indeed, it is reproduced in splendid isolation...

Remembering a Man and His Book