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Author Ehrlich, Benjamin, 1987- author.

Title The brain in search of itself : Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the story of the neuron / Benjamin Ehrlich.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B RAMON Y CAJAL, SANTIAGO    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B RAMÓN Y CAJAL, S.    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue: "A vehement desire of my soul" -- "The necessary antecedent" -- "Perpetual miracle" -- "Plunging into social life" -- "A castle of dreams" -- "The war of duty and desire" -- "The nasty and prosaic bag" -- "A myth concealed in ignorance" -- "Humbled by my failure" -- "Cells and more cells" -- "The irremediable uselessness of my existence" -- "Not for the living but for the dead" -- "The role of Don Quixote" -- "The religion of the cell" -- "Moved by faith" -- "Free endings" -- "Doubting certain facts" -- "The only opinions that matter to me" -- "The absolute unsearchability of the soul" -- "Grand passion in service" -- "From catastrophe to catastrophe" -- "The mysterious butterflies" -- "The summit of my inquisitive activity" -- "The most highly organized structure" -- "A cruel irony of fate" -- "To defend the truth" -- "The unfathomable mystery of life" -- "I drown and I awaken" -- "Those poisoned wounds" -- "No solemn gatherings" -- "Marvelous old man" -- "Statues of the living" -- "The self has no mirror" -- "Searching for themselves in secret" -- "My strength is exhausted."
Summary "A biography of the Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 1852-1934.
Neuroscientists -- Spain -- Biography.
Neurosciences -- History.
Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 1852-1934. (OCoLC)fst00018216
Neurosciences. (OCoLC)fst01036509
Neuroscientists. (OCoLC)fst01036525
Spain. (OCoLC)fst01204303
Genre/Form Biography. (DNLM)D019215
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
ISBN 9780374110376 (hardcover)
0374110379 (hardcover)
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