Gray matters a biography of brain surgery
"A popular biography of brain surgery told by one of its preeminent practitioners"--
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[New York] :
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- I: Beginnings. The myth
- The training
- Penetrating head trauma
- Head-on collisions
- Sports neurosurgery
- II: How do brain surgeons think?. Weighing the risks
- Where to begin?
- The hardest part is knowing when to stop
- Journey to the center of the brain
- A timebomb in the brain
- Too close for comfort
- III: Who's in charge?. Psychosurgery or psycho surgeon?
- Luck favors the prepared mind
- What is it like to be a brain?
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live
- The terminal man
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
