Headhunters : The Pioneers of Neuroscience
by Shephard, Ben, 1948-
Edition statement:1st Published by : Vintage Books (London) Physical details: 323 Pages 20x12 cm | PB ISBN:9780099565734.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Stacks | 612.809 S539H 2015 (Browse shelf) | Available | 32804 |
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Four men met at Cambridge in the 1890s; their careers and lives would intertwine for decades. Beginning with the science of their day, their voyages of discovery in peace and in war would range their work across fields that we now call neurology, psychology, psychiatry, zoology and anthropology. For these men - William Rivers, Grafton Elliot Smith, Charles Myers and William McDougall - they all formed part of the same enquiry: the search for the science of the mind. Taking the reader from archaeological excavations in Egypt to the psychiatric wards of the First World War, where all four specialised in the treatment of shell shock, Headhunters explores the big ideas about the brain, ideas that continue to dominate today's scientific agenda
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