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The Mind Electric: A Neurologist On The Strangeness And Wonder Of Our Brains
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Finalist For The Pen/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Awardnamed A Best Book Of Summer By The Globe And Mail (Toronto), Publishers Weekly, And Book Riotthe Observer (London)S Summer Reads Selectin This Collection Of Medical Tales Reminiscent Of Oliver Sacks...The Best Of Medical Writing (Abraham Verghese, Author Of The Covenant Of Water), A Neurologist Reckons With The Stories We Tell About Our Brains, And The Stories Our Brains Tell Us.A Girl Believes She Has Been Struck Blind For Stealing A Kiss. A Mother Watches Helplessly As Each Of Her Children Is Replaced By A Changeling. A Woman Is Haunted Each Month By The Same Four Chords Of A Single Song. In Neurology, Illness Is Inextricably Linked With Narrative, The Clues To Unraveling These Mysteries Hidden In Both The Details Of A PatientS Story And The Tells Of Their Body.Stories Are Etched Into The Very Structure Of Our Brains, Coded So Deeply That The Impulse For Storytelling Survives And Even Surges After The Most Devastating Injuries. But Our Brains Are Also PorousThe Stories They Concoct Shaped By Cultural Narratives About Bodies And Illness That Permeate The Minds Of Doctors And Patients Alike. In The History Of Medicine, Some Stories Are Heard, While OthersThe Narratives Of Women, Of Black And Brown People, Of Displaced People, Of Disempowered PeopleAre Too Often Dismissed.In The Mind Electric, Neurologist Pria Anand RevealsThrough Case Study, History, Fable, And MemoirAll That The Medical Establishment Has Overlooked: The Complexity And Wonder Of Brains In Health And In Extremis, And The Vast Gray Area Between Sanity And Insanity, Doctor And Patient, And Illness And Wellness, Each Separated From The Next By The Thin Veneer Of A Different Story.Moving From The Boston Hospital Where She Treats Her Patients, To Her Childhood Years In India, To Isla Providencia In The Caribbean And To The Republic Of Guinea In West Africa, She Demonstrates Again And Again The Compelling Paradox At The Heart Of Neurology: That Even The Most Peculiar Symptoms Can Show Us Something Universal About Ourselves As Humans.
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