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Postcards from the brain museum : the improbable search for meaning in the matter of famous minds / Brian Burrell.

Title
Postcards from the brain museum : the improbable search for meaning in the matter of famous minds / Brian Burrell.
Author
Burrell, Brian, 1955-
Publication
New York : Broadway Books, c2004.

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356 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
Traces the near-obsessive nineteenth-century research of top scientific minds to locate possible anatomical signs of genius, criminal behavior, and insanity, discussing the posthumous brain examinations of such figures as Albert Einstein, Walt Whitman, and Vladimir Lenin.
Subject
  • Forensic Anthropology
  • Famous Persons
  • Brain Mapping
  • Brain > anatomy & histology
  • Neuroanatomy
  • Brain > Localization of functions
  • Anatomical specimens
  • Anatomical museums
  • Gifted persons
  • Criminal anthropology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-342) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The most complex object in the universe -- Descartes -- Gall -- Byron -- Gauss -- Broca -- Lombroso -- Séguin -- Guiteau -- Wilder -- Whitman -- Spitzka -- Lenin -- Einstein -- The new phrenologists.
ISBN
0385501285
LCCN
^^2004045648
OCLC
54691753
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library