Sam Kean's The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons will command your full attention from the first page. Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons is one of those books that will have you following your friends around, reading passages out loud, until they snatch the book away from you and read it for themselves. This is Sam Kean's finest work yet, an entertaining and offbeat history of the brain populated with mad scientists, deranged criminals, geniuses, and wretched souls. Club's Best Books of 2014 -Ī Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist: Nonfiction. One of Amazon's Best Books of the Year: Science. Good luck getting it back.”Īmy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist “This is Sam Kean’s finest work yet, an entertaining and offbeat history of the brain populated with mad scientists, deranged criminals, geniuses, and wretched souls. Struggles, resilience, and deep humanity made neuroscience possible. Passageways and recounts the forgotten tales of the ordinary people whose Razor-sharp wit his fans have come to expect, Kean explores the brain’s secret With the lucid, masterful explanations and
Of discovery that reaches back to the 1500s and the high-profile jousting accident Narratives together with prose that makes the pages fly by, to create a story Memories, blind people who see through their tongues. The Dueling Neurosurgeons, Sam Kean travels through time with stories of neurologicalĬuriosities: phantom limbs, Siamese twin brains, viruses that eat patients’ People couldn’t speak but could still sing. Pillars of the community became pathological liars. Transformations that took place when different parts of the brain wereĭestroyed, altering victims’ personalities. In manyĬases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Infectious diseases, horrendous accidents-and see how victims coped. Secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.īrain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike-strokes, seizures, The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the
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