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An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage
An Odd Kind of Fame Stories of Phineas Gage
Author: Malcolm Macmillan
In 1848 a railway construction worker named Phineas Gage suffered an accident that made him a major curiosity of medicine and a significant figure in psychology and neuroscience: an explosion caused a tamping iron to be blown completely through his head, destroying the left frontal lobe of his brain. Gage survived the accident and remained in re...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780262133630
ISBN-10: 0262133636
Publication Date: 8/11/2000
Pages: 576
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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