Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (664 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001U5P7SE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 371 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Fascinating history/science" according to Cathy Lykens. I picked up John Fleischman's Phineas Gage for two reasons: first, I knew a little about his case and wanted to know more, and secondly, I was looking for an attention-getting non-fiction piece to share with my students in literature circle. Fleischman shares the details of Gage's lucky/unlucky accident and the life he lived in the aftermath, but carefully interweave. Wow! Cacc I really loved how the book had multiple perspectives and how it had detailed charts and pictures! It was a big help while studying for the 7th grade final! We were focusing on brain sciences so this book pretty much gave me a case and I pretty much learned every bit of the case of Mr. P. Gage! It is truly a gruesome but true story!. K. L Sadler said "His closest companion was an iron rod.". Well, that will teach me not to read the entire review of a book before sending for it! Not that I'm complaining about the bookI thought it was for adults. It's not really, though I can see using it for reading and science literacy for deaf adults.This is a great book. The explanations concerning what happened to Mr. Gage, and the science behind his medical recovery
Phineas, a railroad construction foreman, was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived to live another eleven years and become a textbook case in brain science. What happened and what didn’t happen inside the brain of Phineas Gage will tell you a lot about how your brain works and how you act human.. Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. His case astonished doctors in his day and still fascinates doctors today. He could walk, talk, work, and travel, but he was changed. Gage "was no longer Gage," said his Vermont doctor, meaning that the old Phineas was dependable and well liked, and the new Phineas was crude and unpredictable. At the time, Phineas Gage seemed to completely recover from his accident
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. . Photographs, glossary, a resource listing and index lend this textbook case the same sense of immediacy as do the words. From Publishers Weekly Science writer John Fleischman uses a clipped, engaging expository style to tell the incredible story of the railroad worker who, in 1848, survived the piercing blast of a 13-pound iron rod as it entered below his cheekbone and exited the front of his skull in Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science