MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02626cam a22003738i 4500
001 2015048638
003 DLC
005 20151219083306.0
008 151210s2016 nyu 000 0deng
010 $a 2015048638
020 $a9780812992731 (hardback)
020 $z9780679643807 (ebook)
035 $a(DNLM)101673648
040 $aDNLM/DLC$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aRC394.A5
060 10 $aWM 173.7
082 00 $a616.85/232$223
100 1 $aDittrich, Luke,$eauthor.
245 10 $aPatient H.M. :$ba story of memory, madness and family secrets /$cLuke Dittrich.
263 $a1608
264 1 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c2016.
300 $ap. ;$ccm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"In the summer of 1953, a renowned Yale neurosurgeon named William Beecher Scoville performed a novel operation on a 27-year-old epileptic patient named Henry Molaison, drilling two silver-dollar sized holes in his forehead and suctioning out a few teaspoons of tissue from a mysterious region deep inside his brain. The operation helped control Molaison's intractable seizures, but it also did something else: It left Molaison amnesic for the rest of his life, with a short term memory of just thirty seconds. Patient H.M., as he came to be known, would emerge as the most important human research subject in history. Much of what we now know about how memory works is a direct result of the sixty years of near-constant experimentation carried out upon him until his death in 2008. Award-winning journalist Luke Dittrich brings readers from the gleaming laboratory in San Diego where Molaison's disembodied brain -- now the focus of intense scrutiny -- sits today; to the surgical suites of the 1940s and 50s, where doctors wielded the powers of gods; and into the examination rooms where generations of researchers performed endless experiments on a single, essential, oblivious man: H.M.. In the process, Dittrich excavates the lives of Dr. Scoville and his most famous patient, and spins their tales together in thrilling, kaleidoscopic fashion, uncovering troves of well-guarded secrets, and revealing how the bright future of modern neuroscience has dark roots in the forgotten history of psychosurgery, raising ethical questions that echo into the present day"--Provided by publisher.
600 02 $aH. M.,$d1926-2008.
600 12 $aScoville, William Beecher,$d1906-1984.
650 12 $aAmnesia, Anterograde
650 22 $aEpilepsy$xsurgery
650 22 $aMemory Disorders
650 22 $aMemory, Long-Term
655 2 $aBiography