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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Dittrich, Luke, author.     Subjects     H. M., 1926-2008.     Scoville, William Beecher, 1906-1984.     Amnesiacs -- Biography.     Epilepsy -- Surgery -- United States -- History.     Memory disorders -- Patients.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dittrich, Luke, author.       by title:      Patient H.M. : a sto...         MARC Display

Patient H.M. : a story of memory, madness and family secrets / Luke Dittrich. by Dittrich, Luke, author. New York : Random House, c2016. Subjects H. M., 1926-2008.   Scoville, William Beecher, 1906-1984.   Amnesiacs -- Biography.   Epilepsy -- Surgery -- United States -- History.   Memory disorders -- Patients. ISBN:  9780812992731 (hardback) : 0812992733 (hardback) Description:  xv, 440 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Part I: Origins. The fall ; Crumpled lead and rippled copper ; Dream jobs ; The bridge ; Arline -- Part II: 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 -- Part III: The hunt. It was brought into the sea ; Proust on the operating table ; Fortunate misfortunes ; Henry Gustave Molaison (1926-1953) -- Part IV: 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. -- Part V: 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In the late 1930s, in asylums and hospitals across America, a group of renowned neurosurgeons worked to develop and refine a new class of brain operation--the lobotomy--that they hoped would eradicate everything from schizophrenia to homosexuality...The most important test subject to emerge from this largely untold chapter was a 27-year-old factory worker named Henry Molaison...Journalist Luke Dittrich uses his case as a starting point for a kaleidoscopic journey, from the first recorded brain surgeries in ancient Egypt to the cutting-edge laboratories of MIT...It is also, at times, a deeply personal journey: Dittrich's grandfather was the brilliant, morally complex surgeon who operated on Molaison--and thousands of other patients..."--From dust jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 616.85232 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 616.85232 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 616.85232 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 616.85232 Di Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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