![]() ![]() ![]() Tan, a nickname, as all he could say by the age of 31 was “tan tan,” had a severe lesion in the frontal lobe of his brain. Kean brings a compassionate lens to these figures, letting the reader see them as fully embodied people, not just as the condition with which they are associated.Īmong the familiar characters are Paul Broca and a couple of his patients, Tan and Lelo. With each chapter, Kean focuses on a different brain area and the historical figures most associated with that brain area. “Perhaps even more important than the science, these stories enrich our understanding of the human condition.”Ī compelling storyteller, Sam Kean, in “The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery,” gives us the backstory to most of the major players, both neuroscientists and their unwitting patients, who appear in our introduction to psychology textbooks. Reviewed by Sue Frantz, MA, Highline College ![]()
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