Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The brain in search of itself

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1246143696

Responsibility statement

Benjamin Ehrlich

Sub title

Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the story of the neuron

Summary

"A biography of the Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

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."

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