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The brain in search of itself : Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the story of the neuron / Benjamin Ehrlich.

by Ehrlich, Benjamin, 1987- author.

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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 1852-1934.

Neuroscientists -- Spain -- Biography.

Neurosciences -- History.

9780374110376 (hardcover) :

0374110379 (hardcover) :

x, 447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Prologue: "A vehement desire of my soul" -- "The necessary antecedent" -- "Perpetual miracle" -- "Plunging into social life" -- "A castle of dreams" -- "The war of duty and desire" -- "The nasty and prosaic bag" -- "A myth concealed in ignorance" -- "Humbled by my failure" -- "Cells and more cells" -- "The irremediable uselessness of my existence" -- "Not for the living but for the dead" -- "The role of Don Quixote" -- "The religion of the cell" -- "Moved by faith" -- "Free endings" -- "Doubting certain facts" -- "The only opinions that matter to me" -- "The absolute unsearchability of the soul" -- "Grand passion in service" -- "From catastrophe to catastrophe" -- "The mysterious butterflies" -- "The summit of my inquisitive activity" -- "The most highly organized structure" -- "A cruel irony of fate" -- "To defend the truth" -- "The unfathomable mystery of life" -- "I drown and I awaken" -- "Those poisoned wounds" -- "No solemn gatherings" -- "Marvelous old man" -- "Statues of the living" -- "The self has no mirror" -- "Searching for themselves in secret" -- "My strength is exhausted."

"A biography of the Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal"--

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