(Paperback - English - 9781786771117)
In Charles Richet: A Nobel Prize Winning Scientist's Explorations of Psychic Phenomena , author, Carlos Alvarado, presents a collection of previously published scholarly papers about Richet. Charles Richet (1850-1935), the distinguished French physiologist who won a Nobel Prize for his work on anaphylaxis, was a renaissance man. In addition to physiology he wrote poetry and plays and took an interest in many topics including pacifism, eugenics, philosophy, psychology and psychical research, which he referred to as metapsychics--the subject of this book. Richet, in his role of psychical researcher, investigated ESP, mental and physical mediumship, survival of dea ..