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An edition of The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery (2014)

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The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

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The story of neuroscience

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Little, Brown And Company
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English
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407

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Neurosciences, Physicians, Popular Works, Neurologic Manifestations, Brain Diseases, Brain, Popular works, Physiology, History, Diseases, Brain, physiology, Brain, diseases, Neuropsychology, nyt:science=2014-06-08, New York Times bestseller, Hirnforschung, Neurowissenschaften
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William Sharpe, Charles Guiteau, Andreas Vesalius, Ambroise Pare, Cajal, Leon Czolgosz, James Holman, Silas Weir Mitchell, Carleton Gajdusk, Harvey Cushing, John Hemens, Wilder Penfield, Broca
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Maryland, New Guinea, Detroit, Philadelphia, Gettysburg, Melbourne, Papua New Guinea, Oxford, Seattle, Denver, Hartford, Connecticut

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New York, Boston, London

Table of Contents

Part I:
Gross Anatomy
Introduction/5
Chapter One: The Dueling Neurosurgeons/17
Part Two:
Cells, Senses, Circuits
Chapter Two: The Assassin's Soup/43
Chapter Three: Wiring and Rewiring/73
Chapter Four: Facing Brain Damage/99
Part III:
Body and Brain
Chapter Five: The Brain's Motor/129
Chapter Six: The Laughing Disease/155
Chapter Seven: Sex and Punishment/183
Part IV:
Beliefs and Delusions
Chapter Eight: The Sacred Disease/215
Chapter Nine: " Sleights of Mind " /241
Part V:
CONSCIOUSNESS
Chapter Ten: Honest Lying/267
Chapter Eleven: Left, Right, and center/299
Chapter Twelve: The Man, the Myth, the Legend/329
Acknowledgements/357
Notes and Miscellanea/359
Works Cited/383
Index/397

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
2014

Classifications

Library of Congress
QP376 .K35 2014, RD593, RD593 .K43 2014, QP376 .K36 2014

Contributors

Illustrator
Andrew J Brozyna
Author Photographer
Voss Studio
Jacket Design
Will Strachle

The Physical Object

Format
Hard cover
Pagination
407
Number of pages
407

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25916924M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780316182348
ISBN 13
9780316182348
LCCN
2014004910
OCLC/WorldCat
870336349

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