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Article: GRUESOME STORY MAKES BRAIN SCIENCE COME TO LIFE.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 19, 2002
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Byline: CAROLINE LUZZATTO
PHINEAS GAGE
A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
JOHN FLEISCHMAN
Houghton Mifflin. 86 pp. $16.
IN 1848, a railroad construction foreman named Phineas Gage looked away from the explosive charge he was setting, let an iron bar slip from his fingers, and was abruptly blasted into medical history. The explosion blew the 3 1/2-foot-long bar clear through his skull, leaving him miraculously alive but also strangely altered.
In the young adult science book ``Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science,'' author John Fleischman tells the grisly and intriguing story of ...