Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of MemoryBloomsbury Academic, 28 de fev. de 2000 - 192 páginas According to Bertman, just as an individual needs memories to maintain a sense of personal identity, so does a nation need them in order to survive. Like Alzheimer victims, however, today's Americans are rapidly losing a consciousness of history, and with it, a sense of national identity and direction. |
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... Brain The absence of memory , or amnesia , can be caused by an assault upon the brain . Such an assault can take many forms . Physical Injury . In the case of Rees - Jones , the cause was physical trauma , an injury sustained by his brain ...
... Brain Despite earlier limitations , newer investigative techniques now allow neuroscientists to gaze through a window on the brain.21 As a consequence of their stunning discoveries ( discoveries that , incidentally , still continue ) ...
... brain at the rate of one per second , it would take us more than half a million lifetimes . The myriad cells of the brain communicate by an electrochemical pro- cess . Each neuron possesses a stemlike sending unit called an axon , and a ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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