Modern Mind

533
medicine
see
AIDS; antibiotics; antidepressants; autism; beta-blockers; blood transfusion; cancer research; cloning; contraception; cosmetic surgery; genetics; glands; hormones; immunosuppressants; leukaemia; Medicare; progesterone; psychoanalysis; psychology; restriction enzymes; Salvarsen; syphilis; therapy-religions; tranquillisers; transplants (organ); tuberculosis; venereal diseases; viruses; vitamins
‘medium is the message, the’, 546–7
mental abilities
see
Intelligence Quotient
mental illness, 491–2, 501, 626–8
Mentalités
(historical), 558, 560
meritocracy, 448–9, 698–9
messenger substances
see
hormones
metanarratives
see
postmodernism
metaphysics, 36–7, 76–7
‘Middle America’, 520–2
middlebrow: and media, 210–12, 219–20
mind: nature and function of, 492–3, 500–1
modernism: condemned by Catholic Church, 68–9; defined, 52–3; impact of, 71–2; and science, 5
molecular biology, 683–98
monetarism, 650
moon landings, 566–8
morphomatics, 749
mother tongue, 690
motivational research, 445–6
motor cars: ownership, 214
Movement poets and novelists, 464–5
music: chance in, 624; evolution of, 757; indeterminacy in, 513; and modernism, 52–9; in Vienna, 37;
see also
electronic music; pop music; serial music
myth, 461–2
narcissism, 599–601, 620
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 112
National Intellegence Tests (USA)
see
Intelligence Quotient
National Socialism (Nazism): beginnings, 173; Hitler leads, 240; and Olympic Games (1936), 329; persecution and flight of intellectuals and scientists, 181, 302–7, 309, 350–1; persecution of Jews, 67, 243, 302, 309, 327, 352–7, 394, 435, 606; philosophical background, 234, 309; race theories, 294–7, 310–12, 315; religious opposition to, 314–15; repression of art and artists, 211–13, 300–2; rise of, 273, 294–6, 300, 304; and Stalinism, 436; and Western disarmament, 176
nationalism, 71
Nazism
see
National Socialism negation, 503
Négritude
, 460
Neo-Confucian synthesis, 71
neptunium, 397
neutron stars, 572–3
neutrons, 262, 393, 509;
see also
particle physics
New Class, 443
New Deal (USA), 341–2, 646
New Growth Theory, 649
New Journalism, 598–9
New Learning (New Culture)
Movement, 178–9
New Left, 537, 595
New Policies (China), 70
‘Niagara movement’, 111
nihilism
see
therapeutic nihilism
Noema,
32
Noesis
, 32
Nomenklatura
(Soviet Russia), 318
noncommunicative geometry, 745
Novembergruppe,
222, 231
nuclear energy, 365, 394, 396;
see also
atomic bomb
nucleic acid: and amplification, 617
nucleosynthesis, 508
nucleus (atomic), 93;
see also
particle physics
nylon, 343–4
oceanography, 553–4
Oedipus complex, 13–14
oestrogen, 428
oil price crisis (1973–4), 583, 589, 647–8, 655, 680
Old Growth Theory, 649
opinion polls, 432
other-directed societies, 433, 442, 446, 650
ozone layer, 586
palaeontology, 370–2, 484–7, 586–7, 612–14, 675, 686–90
Pan-Germanism, 241, 243
papal encyclicals
see
Index of Names, People and Places under Popes John XXIII; Pius X and Pius XII
parallel universes (cosmology), 742, 755
parallel worlds (psychology), 203
paramedics, 647
particle physics, 20–1, 90–2, 134, 256–64. 393–5, 508–9, 569–70, 744–5
particulate inheritance, 115
penicillin, 367–8
pessimism, 38, 39
pesticides, 582–3
Ph.D. (degree), 74
phenomenology, 31
philosophy: continental and analytic, 75, 766; and forms of knowledge, 668–71, 676–9; and objectivity/subjectivity divide, 673–4; and problem-solving, 492–3; and science, 235–6
photography, 167–8
physics
see
particle physics; quantum
physics; theoretical physics
pill, the (contraceptive), 429
Planck length, 740
Planck’s constant, 22
planned society, 376, 378–9, 382, 388, 646–8;
see also
welfare state
plasmids, 615
plastic, 96–8, 343–4, 635
plutonium, 397
pollution
see
ecology
polyesters, 343–4
pop art, 510–12, 515
pop music, 456–7, 477
pornography, 529
Port Huron Statement (1962), 595
Post-Impressionism, 58, 127
postindustrial society, 592–3
postmodernism, 7, 679–81, 706, 715, 729, 734, 753, 769
poststructuralism, 634–5
potassium-argon method (dating), 487
poverty, 286–9, 383–5, 441, 520–1, 646, 651, 653–4, 698
pragmatism, 75–7, 89, 90, 679
prehistoric art, 369–70
‘preparation 606’
see
Salvarsen
primal therapy, 598–9
privatisation (of utilities and businesses), 648
progesterone, 428
progress: decline in belief in, 245–6, 254, 453, 603, 631, 670, 673; end of, 7,