Author: Chernus, Ira
Description:
Nine chapters cover: fundamental principles; experimental methods; the chemical shift; coupling of nuclear spins; nuclear relaxation and chemical rate processes; two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; macromolecules; NMR of solids; special topics. Building on Robert Jay Lifton's theory of psychic numbing, and using madness as a guiding metaphor, Chernus shows that popular perceptions of the Bomb are a kaleidoscope of changing ideas and images constituting a public madness. He offers interpretations of four theorists in the psychology of religion--Paul Tillich, R.D. Laing Mircea Eliade, and James Hillman--to trace the roots of nuclear madness to the onset of modernity, when the West gained technological mastery at the price of losing religious imagination.