Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science

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Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story
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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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Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
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0-618-05252-6
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Book
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 07:58
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 07:58
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201
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