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Author:
Ehrlich, Benjamin, 1987- author.
Title:
The brain in search of itself : Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the story of the neuron / Benjamin Ehrlich.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
FarrarStraus and Giroux,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
x, 447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Ramón y Cajal, Santiago,--1852-1934.
Neuroscientists--Spain--Biography.
Neurosciences--History.
Biographies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue: "A vehement desire of my soul" -- "The necessary antecedent" -- "Perpetual miracle" -- "Plunging into social life" -- "A castle of dreams" -- "The war of duty and desire" -- "The nasty and prosaic bag" -- "A myth concealed in ignorance" -- "Humbled by my failure" -- "Cells and more cells" -- "The irremediable uselessness of my existence" -- "Not for the living but for the dead" -- "The role of Don Quixote" -- "The religion of the cell" -- "Moved by faith" -- "Free endings" -- "Doubting certain facts" -- "The only opinions that matter to me" -- "The absolute unsearchability of the soul" -- "Grand passion in service" -- "From catastrophe to catastrophe" -- "The mysterious butterflies" -- "The summit of my inquisitive activity" -- "The most highly organized structure" -- "A cruel irony of fate" -- "To defend the truth" -- "The unfathomable mystery of life" -- "I drown and I awaken" -- "Those poisoned wounds" -- "No solemn gatherings" -- "Marvelous old man" -- "Statues of the living" -- "The self has no mirror" -- "Searching for themselves in secret" -- "My strength is exhausted."
Summary:
"A biography of the Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0374110379
9780374110376
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1246143696
LCCN:
2021049291
Locations:
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

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