An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage by Malcolm Macmillan

An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage

Malcolm Macmillan

576 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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In 1848 a railway construction worker named Phineas Gage suffered an accident that made him a major curiosity of medicine and a significant figure in psychology and neuroscience: an explosion caused a tamping iron to be blown completely through hi...

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