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The Mind Electric: Stories of the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains

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內容簡介 「迷人至極，讓人聯想到奧利佛・薩克斯與最精彩的醫學寫作。」——亞伯拉罕・維爾吉斯「一部豐富且充滿人性的作品。」——關・阿茲海德，《你所認識的魔鬼》作者「一場令人著迷的旅程，帶我們深入大腦的奇妙潛能。」——伊莉諾・克萊格霍恩，《病弱女性》作者一位年輕女子聲稱自己正傳達聖靈之語。一位母親堅信孩子們已被「換嬰」取代。一個家庭世代被詛咒，竟無法入睡。這些神秘離奇的症狀，是普莉雅・阿南德（Pria Anand）所接觸的病患日常。作為一位神經科醫師，她的工作就像偵探——需要將病患的敘述與身體所透露的線索拼湊起來，才能找出最終的診斷。每一個診斷，都離不開一個故事。在這本充滿詩意、深情且極富人性的處女作中，阿南德分享了她病患的故事，也講述了她自己作為醫師、母親，甚至是病人的親身經歷。她帶領讀者從波士頓的醫院，到她在印度的童年歲月，再到加勒比海的普羅維登西亞島，以及非洲西部的幾內亞——一次又一次證明神經科學的悖論真理：最奇異的個體症狀，往往映照出人類共通的本質。 這是一本關於大腦與人性、病症與故事、科學與同理心交織而成的非凡之作。'Fascinating. Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks and the best of medical writing' Abraham Verghese'A rich and humane work' Gwen Adshead, author of The Devil You Know'A fascinating journey through the curious capacities of our brains' Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell WomenA young woman channelling the voice of the Holy Spirit. A mother whose children have been replaced by changelings. A family cursed by a mysterious inability to sleep. Pria Anand's patients come to her with myriad peculiar symptoms, but they all have something in common: their diagnosis always hinges on a story. Her task as a neurologist is akin to a detective's, piecing together the clues in a patient's account with the tells of their body in order to settle on a diagnosis.In her gorgeously lyrical, passionate and humane first book, Pria Anand shares stories of her own patients alongside her own experiences as a doctor, a mother and a patient, in order to explore all the bizarre ways in which our brains go awry. Moving from the Boston hospital where she treats her patients, to her childhood years in India, to Isla Providencia in the Caribbean and to Guinea in West Africa, she demonstrates again and again the compelling paradox at the heart of neurology: that the strangest symptoms experienced by any single individual can show us something universal about being human.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Pria AnandPria Anand is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine. She is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Medical School, and she trained in neurology, neuro-infectious diseases, and neuroimmunology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital. She has received the Thomas J. Preziosi Award for Clinical Excellence in Neurology, the Frank L. Coulson, Jr. Award for Clinical Excellence for “a level of mastery in interpersonal skills, humanism, diagnostic acumen, knowledge, and a scholarly approach to clinical practice”, and the A.B. Baker Award for her teaching.

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最佳賣點 : 一本關於大腦與人性、病症與故事、科學與同理心交織而成的非凡之作

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