Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science

by John Fleischman. Illustrated. Houghton Mifflin, $16.00.

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In 1848 a tamping iron accidently blasted through the head of Phineas Gage, foreman on a railroad construction gang, leaving him physically recovered but mentally and emotionally changed and providing new insights into the workings of the human brain.

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Best Books for Young Adults 2003 - Selection(s)

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