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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets

Luke Dittrich

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#320 of 3,809 books · #27 in Science & Technology

Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (2016) and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2017).

In the summer of 1953, maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on an epileptic patient named Henry Molaison. But it was a catastrophic failure, leaving Henry unable to create long-term memories. Scoville's grandson, Luke Dittrich, takes us on an astonishing journey through the history of neuroscience, from the first brain surgeries in ancient Egypt to the New England asylum where his grandfather developed a taste for human experimentation. Dittrich's investigation confronts unsettling family secrets and reveals the dark roots of modern neuroscience, raising troubling questions that echo into the present day.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781448104680
Topics
NeuroscienceMemory and the brainMedical ethics

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