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- Objectstaat
- Book Title
- The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Sto
- Genre
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Subject
- Internal Medicine, Science & Technology
- ISBN
- 9780374110376
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, Medical
- Publication Name
- Brain in Search of Itself : Santiago Ramón Y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 23.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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"Passionate and meticulous . . . [Ehrlich] delivers thought-provoking metaphors, unforgettable scenes and many beautifully worded phrases." --Benjamin Labatut, The New York Times Book Review One of The Telegraph 's best books of the year The first major biography of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered neurons and transformed our understanding of the human mind--illustrated with his extraordinary anatomical drawings Unless you're a neuroscientist, Santiago Ramón y Cajal is likely the most important figure in the history of biology you've never heard of. Along with Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur, he ranks among the most brilliant and original biologists of the nineteenth century, and his discoveries have done for our understanding of the human brain what the work of Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton did for our conception of the physical universe. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 for his lifelong investigation of the structure of neurons: "The mysterious butterflies of the soul," Cajal called them, "whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind." And he produced a dazzling oeuvre of anatomical drawings, whose alien beauty grace the pages of medical textbooks and the walls of museums to this day. Benjamin Ehrlich's The Brain in Search of Itself is the first major biography in English of this singular figure, whose scientific odyssey mirrored the rocky journey of his beloved homeland of Spain into the twentieth century. Born into relative poverty in a mountaintop hamlet, Cajal was an enterprising and unruly child whose ambitions were both nurtured and thwarted by his father, a country doctor with a flinty disposition. A portrait of a nation as well a biography, The Brain in Search of Itself follows Cajal from the hinterlands to Barcelona and Madrid, where he became an illustrious figure--resisting and ultimately transforming the rigid hierarchies and underdeveloped science that surrounded him. To momentous effect, Cajal devised a theory that was as controversial in his own time as it is universal in ours: that the nervous system is comprised of individual cells with distinctive roles, just like any other organ in the body. In one of the greatest scientific rivalries in history, he argued his case against Camillo Golgi and prevailed. In our age of neuro-imaging and investigations into the neural basis of the mind, Cajal is the artistic and scientific forefather we must get to know. The Brain in Search of Itself is at once the story of how the brain as we know it came into being and a finely wrought portrait of an individual as fantastical and complex as the subject to which he devoted his life.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374110379
ISBN-13
9780374110376
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3050074169
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Brain in Search of Itself : Santiago Ramón Y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Internal Medicine, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
23.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2021-049291
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Rc339.52.R353e37
Reviews
"Benjamin Ehrlich has pulled off a surprise epic of scientific biography, brilliantly restoring the strange forgotten figure of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Don Quixote of Spanish science, to his original status as national treasure and outside winner of the Nobel Prize. It is a haunting story, colorfully told, with some of the quality of a folk tale. Boldly and vividly written, Ehrlich's book follows Cajal affectionately and patiently through all his struggles. Above all he makes Cajal's brain-research fascinating, and his lost Spain unforgettable. A marvellously accessible, fresh and thought-provoking book." --Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder "In this beautifully written biography, Benjamin Ehrlich brings to life the genius of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. It is the story of a boy from a tiny mountain village in Spain who goes on to the heights of scientific achievement, promoted by artistic talent comparable to that of the greatest draftsmen of the Renaissance. Cajal's vision of the brain, which Ehrlich lays out in an accessible way, is the cornerstone of modern neuroscience." --Larry W. Swanson, University Professor at the University of Southern California and author of Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan "Written with a cool, fierce eye for details, The Brain in Search of Itself should appeal to a wide audience. Here is the first fully researched and fleshed-out biography in English of one of the founding fathers of neuroscience, a major figure in modern science. Cajal and his world come to vivid life in these pages. Benjamin Ehrlich is a natural writer, and this appealing narrative--which has the forward momentum of a good novel--tells a story that will astonish and delight readers." --Jay Parini, author of Borges and Me: An Encounter "Santiago Ramón y Cajal is often called the father of neuroscience, yet until now, his own history has remained largely untold. In rich, poetic prose, Benjamin Ehrlich presents him here in the full context of his life and times. This is literary biography at its best, seamlessly uniting the personal and the scientific in a gripping epic with universal appeal." --Casey Schwartz, author of Attention, a Love Story and In the Mind Fields "Thoroughly researched and beautifully written, The Brain in Search of Itself is an exceptional new biography of one of the most important neuroscientists who ever lived. Much as Cajal combined careful scientific study with his unique artistic sensibility to create striking depictions of the brain, Ehrlich unites rigorous scholarship and evocative prose to form a compelling portrait of Cajal himself--of his origins and intellectual growth, his dreams and disappointments, his crises, triumphs, and continuing legacy. To read this book is to understand the particular environment in which Cajal's genius developed, and to get as close as possible to the inner workings of his mind." --Ferris Jabr, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and Scientific American "Benjamin Ehrlich's biography tackles the big, unending questions that drove Santiago Ramón y Cajal to conceive of the neuron: Where does the soul reside? What are the structures that comprise dreams, memories, consciousness? The Brain in Search of Itself shows what it means to look, and to look closely, at a person's life. Through the lens of Cajal, an unlikely visionary, Ehrlich reveals a sweeping portrait of the history of neuroscience. Cajal brought an artist's imagination to the microscope, and in Ehrlich's attentive rendering, the scientist-artist's life appears like the brain itself: both material and ethereal at once." --Jenn Shapland, author of My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
Dewey Decimal
612.8233092
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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