Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery
The topic of brain surgery impresses the general public, but specific knowledge about the brain remains weak among the same public. That shortcoming will likely change in coming decades as twenty-first-century science penetrates neuroscience as a frontier, much as physics was explained in the twentieth century. In this book, neurosurgeon Theodore Schwartz explains the past, present, and future of brain surgery in this well-written history of the medical specialty. Henry Cushing stands as the father…