Phineas Gage
About this book
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. A railroad construction foreman, Phineas was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived another eleven years and became a textbook case in brain science. But he was forever changed by the accident, and what happened inside his brain will tell you a lot about how your brain works and what makes us who we are.(description taken from book page on Amazon)
Subjects
- biography
- brain
- brain damage
- brain damage, patients
- brain injuries
- complications
- etiology
- history
- juvenile literature
- localization of functions
- mental health
- patients
- penetrating head injuries
- personality disorders
- psychosurgery
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 6
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- surgery