The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Sam Kean
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
99

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean Book Summary

The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.

Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed, altering victims' personalities. Parents suddenly couldn't recognize their own children. Pillars of the community became pathological liars. Some people couldn't speak but could still sing.

In The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, Sam Kean travels through time with stories of neurological curiosities: phantom limbs, Siamese twin brains, viruses that eat patients' memories, blind people who see through their tongues. He weaves these narratives together with prose that makes the pages fly by, to create a story of discovery that reaches back to the 1500s and the high-profile jousting accident that inspired this book's title.

With the lucid, masterful explanations and razor-sharp wit his fans have come to expect, Kean explores the brain's secret passageways and recounts the forgotten tales of the ordinary people whose struggles, resilience, and deep humanity made neuroscience possible.

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Book Name The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
Genre Biology
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 7.69 MB

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Loved it!. A fun read!!! This book is stocked with neuropsychology case stories and tid bits of info that make the book hard to put down. The writer had a wickedly funny sense of humor not often seen in the science reads. Such a good book and so interesting that I'll probably read it twice.

Absolutely awesome. I have now read all 3 of this author's books and found all of them to be interesting and informative while still entertaining. Perhaps it helps that I am an MD and a science geek but I doubt it. Of the 3 this was by far my favorite but I would still highly recommend all of them.

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The The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons book written by Sam Kean was published on 06 May 2014, Tuesday in the Biology category. A total of 99 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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