His writing shows that every breakthrough was borne of malady, injury, necessity. Kean effortlessly ties historical accounts, stories of madness and insanity, with the scientific breakthroughs that often followed. In The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, Sam Kean travels through time with stories of startling peculiarity and incredible fascination, stories of neurological curiosities: phantom limbs, cannibalism, Siamese brains and a plethora of other strange, though equally fascinating things. The book was published in hardback on by Little, Brown and Company. The Daily Telegraph described it as "A dramatic account of the gruesome accidents that shaped modern neuroscience." Publication The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, also known by its full title The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of The Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery is a science book regarding the brain and its functions by Sam Kean. Non-fiction, Biology, Neuroscience, Medicine, History
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