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Author Burrell, Brian, 1955-

Title Postcards from the brain museum : the improbable search for meaning in the matter of famous minds / Brian Burrell.

Publication Info. New York : Broadway Books, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  153 BURRELL    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-342) and index.
Contents The most complex object in the universe -- Descartes -- Gall -- Byron -- Gauss -- Broca -- Lombroso -- Séguin -- Guiteau -- Wilder -- Whitman -- Spitzka -- Lenin -- Einstein -- The new phrenologists.
Subject Neuroanatomy.
Brain -- Localization of functions.
Anatomical specimens.
Anatomical museums.
Gifted persons.
Criminal anthropology.
Brain -- anatomy & histology.
Brain Mapping.
Famous Persons.
Forensic Anthropology.
ISBN 0385501285
9780385501286
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