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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

by Sam Kean

  • FINISHED
  • Finished June 2019
  • First published 2014

neuroscience neurology case histories

Kean tells the history of neuroscience through patients whose injuries revealed what different brain regions do.   The cases range from railway accidents to strokes and war wounds.