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The tale of the dueling neurosurgeons : the history of the human brain as revealed by true stories of trauma, madness, and recovery / Sam Kean.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 407 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316182348 (hbk.)
  • 0316182346 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Dueling neurosurgeons
  • History of the human brain
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 617.4/80232 23
LOC classification:
  • QP376 .K36 2014
NLM classification:
  • WL 300
Contents:
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Book Independence Community College Library Adult Non-Fiction Independence Community College Library Adult Books 617.48 K19t 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Paid for with a Collection Development Grant from the Southeast KS Library System 32130627372292
Book Iola Public Library Adult Non-Fiction Iola Public Library Adult Books 617.48 Kean, Sam (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Purchased with funds from the Jeffrey Klotzbach Memorial. 34311002446731

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-395) and index.

Gross anatomy. The dueling neurosurgeons -- Cells, senses, circuits. The assassin's soup ; Wiring and rewiring ; Facing brain damage -- Body and brain. The brain's motor ; The laughing disease ; Sex and punishment -- Beliefs and delusions. The sacred disease ; "Sleights of mind" -- Consciousness. Honest lying ; Left, right, and center ; The man, the myth, the legend.

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