- Published: 1 June 2015
- ISBN: 9781784161033
- Imprint: Black Swan
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $32.00
The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons
The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
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- Published: 1 June 2015
- ISBN: 9781784161033
- Imprint: Black Swan
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $32.00
Kean's lively new book unpacks a bundle of fascinating, alarming and sometimes heartbreaking case histories
Mail on Sunday
Entertaining... Some of his stories are astonishing... Kean tells a good story and asks the right questions
The Sunday Times
Kean...reveal[s] how intracranial calamities have built neuroscience case by puzzled-out case, gross anatomy to consciousness. However pop the science, there is much to compel
Nature
The author's skill in illuminating how the brain functions and malfunctions manifest themselves in people's lives makes for absorbing reading....These avowals ultimately raise weighty, compelling questions about the nature of identity and what it means to be human
Wall Street Journal