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A review by kyramnelson
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman
3.0
Required Categories: Non fiction
The book investigates the case of Phineas Gage, who had a metal rod impale his brain. The book also talks about the brain and our historical understanding of how it works. There was a fairly long section where the book was just talking about the structure of the brain and how doctors used to believe the brain worked. I felt like it would have been nice if this section was broken up more by the narrative about Phineas. The end was my favorite because it was the section that I thought did the best job of integrating scientific information with historical narrative. There were a couple times I thought the pictures should have been on different pages than they were, but overall the layout was clean and easy to read. There weren't a lot of captions or sidebars, which I like.
The book investigates the case of Phineas Gage, who had a metal rod impale his brain. The book also talks about the brain and our historical understanding of how it works. There was a fairly long section where the book was just talking about the structure of the brain and how doctors used to believe the brain worked. I felt like it would have been nice if this section was broken up more by the narrative about Phineas. The end was my favorite because it was the section that I thought did the best job of integrating scientific information with historical narrative. There were a couple times I thought the pictures should have been on different pages than they were, but overall the layout was clean and easy to read. There weren't a lot of captions or sidebars, which I like.