Employs a contemporary medical perspective to explore ancient ideas about the workings of the body, the soul and the mind which underpin the notion of consciousness challenging, thereby, some established ideas about mental illness in antiquity. All...Loe edasi...
DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Shortlisted for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2018 Wolfson Prize The story of a vi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Sep-2007, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Random House Trade Paperbacks, ISBN-13: 9780812972528)
Provides an in-depth study of the science and scientists behind the research into prions, enigmatic brain proteins, and their influence on human life, examining the case of an Italian family victimized for two centuries by a fatal familial insomnia,...Loe edasi...
