Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain as The Science Delusion by Coronet, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, a Hachette UK company, London" -- Title page verso."

Is Nature mechanical? -- Is the total amount of matter and energy always the same? -- Are the laws of nature fixed? -- Is matter unconscious? -- Is nature purposeless? -- Is all biological inheritance material? -- Are memories stored as material traces? -- Are minds confined to brains? -- Are psychic phenomena illusory? -- Is mechanistic medicine the only kind that really works? -- Illusions of objectivity -- Scientific futures

"In Science Set Free, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas that are not only limiting, but also dangerous for the future of humanity" -- Front jacket flap