Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death

by Deborah Blum

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Author: Deborah Blum

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Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN 10: 0143038958
ISBN 13: 978-0143038955

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Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
ISBN 10: 1594200904
ISBN 13: 978-1594200908

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Poision Squad and The Poisoner's Handbook tells the amazing story of William James's quest for empirical evidence of the spirit world

What if a world-renowned philosopher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard suddenly announced he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, the illustrious William James led a determined scientific investigation into "unexplainable" incidences of clairvoyance and ghostly visitations. James and a small group of eminent scientists staked their reputations, their careers, even their sanity on one of the most extraordinary quests ever undertaken: to empirically prove the existence of ghosts, spirits, and psychic phenomena. What they pursued—and what they found—raises questions as fascinating today as they were then.

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