The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons
The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon , a new history of the brain told via fascinating tales of the greatest and most astounding injuries in neuroscience
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From the author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon , a new history of the brain told via fascinating tales of the greatest and most astounding injuries in neuroscience
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For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards. In many cases their survival was miraculous, and observers marvelled at the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed. Parents suddenly couldn't recognise their children. Pillars of the community became pathological liars and paedophiles. Some people couldn't speak but could still sing. Others couldn't read but could write.The stories of these people laid the foundations of modern neuroscience and, century by century, key cases taught scientists what every last region of the brain did. With lucid explanations and incisive wit, Sam Kean explores the brain's secret passageways and recounts the forgotten tales of the ordinary individuals whose struggles, resilience and deep humanity made neuroscience possible.
Autoren-Porträt von Sam Kean
Sam Kean spent years collecting mercury from broken thermometers as a child and now he is a writer in Washington DC. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, Air & Space/Smithsonian and New Scientist. In 2009 he was a runner-up for the National Association of Science Writers' Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for best science writer under the age of thirty. He currently writes for Science. His first book, The Disappearing Spoon, was a New York Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Royal Society's Winton Prize for science writing.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sam Kean
- 2015, 496 Seiten, Maße: 12,3 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Black Swan
- ISBN-10: 1784161039
- ISBN-13: 9781784161033
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.03.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Kean's lively new book unpacks a bundle of fascinating, alarming and sometimes heartbreaking case histories Mail on Sunday
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