Fiendel William Introduction (1 results)
The Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain.
Penfield, Wilder; Hendel, Charles W. (foreword); Fiendel, William (introduction); Symonds, Sir Charles (reflections).
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1978
- Softcover
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Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white drawings & text-photos (figures), edges faintly foxed, minor edgewear, cover design differs from stock photo. 124 pp. Wilder Penfield describes current knowledge about the brain and asks to what extent recent findings explain the action of the mind. A classic account of the rel…ationship between the human brain mind. Can the mind be explained only by what we know about the brain, or are both essential as separate components? A compelling personal account of his experiences as a neurosurgeon and scientist observing the inner workings of the brain in conscious patients. The American author was the world's foremost neurologist involved in mind-brain research at the time of his death in 1976. (This copy: First Princeton paperback printing, 1978. SCARCE thus.).
