Name Erwin Straus | Role Neurologist | |
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Books Man, time, and world, Psychiatry and philosophy Nominations National Book Award for Science, Philosophy, and Religion (Nonfiction) |
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Erwin Straus (11 November 1891, Frankfurt am Main – 20 May 1975, Lexington, Kentucky) was a German-American phenomenologist and neurologist who helped to pioneer anthropological medicine and psychiatry, a holistic approach to medicine that is critical of mechanistic and reductionistic approaches to understanding and treating human beings.
Some of his work can also be regarded as a precursor to or early version of neurophenomenology. Straus taught at Black Mountain College.
His books published in English include:
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