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005			20160830090856.0
008			151210s2016 nyua 001 0deng
010			_a 2015048638
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020			_a9780812992731 _q(hardback)
020			_a0812992733 _q(hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)932587790 _z(OCoLC)914290183 _z(OCoLC)948570337
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050	0	0	_aRC394.A5 _bD58 2016
060	1	0	_aWM 173.7
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100	1		_aDittrich, Luke, _eauthor. _92752
245	1	0	_aPatient H.M. : _ba story of memory, madness, and family secrets / _cLuke Dittrich.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c2016.
300			_axv, 440 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aOrigins. The fall -- Crumpled lead and rippled copper -- Dream jobs -- The bridge -- Arline -- Madness. Pomander walk -- Water, fire, electricity -- Melius anceps remedium quam nullum -- The broken -- Room 2200 -- Sunset Hill -- Experiment successful, but the patient died -- Unlimited access -- Ecphory -- The vacuum and the ice pick -- The hunt. It was brought into the sea -- Proust on the operating table -- Fortunate misfortunes -- Henry Gustave Molaison (1926-1953) -- Discovery. Where angels fear to tread -- Monkeys and men -- Interpreting the stars -- The son-of-a-bitch center -- The MIT research project known as the amnesic patient H.M. -- Secret wars. Dewey defeats Truman -- A sweet, tractable man -- It is necessary to go to Niagara to see Niagara Falls -- Patient H.M. (1953-2008) -- The smell of bone dust -- Every day is alone in itself -- Postmortem.
520			_a"In the summer of 1953, a renowned Yale neurosurgeon named William Beecher Scoville performed a novel operation on a 27-year-old epileptic patient named Henry Molaison, drilling two silver-dollar sized holes in his forehead and suctioning out a few teaspoons of tissue from a mysterious region deep inside his brain. The operation helped control Molaison's intractable seizures, but it also did something else: It left Molaison amnesic for the rest of his life, with a short term memory of just thirty seconds. Patient H.M., as he came to be known, would emerge as the most important human research subject in history. Much of what we now know about how memory works is a direct result of the sixty years of near-constant experimentation carried out upon him until his death in 2008. Award-winning journalist Luke Dittrich brings readers from the gleaming laboratory in San Diego where Molaison's disembodied brain--now the focus of intense scrutiny--sits today; to the surgical suites of the 1940s and 50s, where doctors wielded the powers of gods; and into the examination rooms where generations of researchers performed endless experiments on a single, essential, oblivious man: H.M. In the process, Dittrich excavates the lives of Dr. Scoville and his most famous patient, and spins their tales together in thrilling, kaleidoscopic fashion, uncovering troves of well-guarded secrets, and revealing how the bright future of modern neuroscience has dark roots in the forgotten history of psychosurgery, raising ethical questions that echo into the present day"--Provided by publisher.
600	0	0	_aH. M., _d1926-2008 _92753
600	1	0	_aScoville, William Beecher, _d1906-1984. _92754
650		0	_aAmnesiacs _vBiography. _92755
650		0	_aEpilepsy _xSurgery _zUnited States _xHistory. _92756
650		0	_aMemory disorders _xPatients. _92757
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