A Hole in the Head - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Hole in the Head write by Charles G. Gross. This book was released on 2012-01-13. A Hole in the Head available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys—from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells—in the history of brain sciences. Neuroscientist Charles Gross has been interested in the history of his field since his days as an undergraduate. A Hole in the Head is the second collection of essays in which he illuminates the study of the brain with fascinating episodes from the past. This volume's tales range from the history of trepanation (drilling a hole in the skull) to neurosurgery as painted by Hieronymus Bosch to the discovery that bats navigate using echolocation. The emphasis is on blind alleys and errors as well as triumphs and discoveries, with ancient practices connected to recent developments and controversies. Gross first reaches back into the beginnings of neuroscience, then takes up the interaction of art and neuroscience, exploring, among other things, Rembrandt's “Anatomy Lesson” paintings, and finally, examines discoveries by scientists whose work was scorned in their own time but proven correct in later eras.
Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed
Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed write by Wilbert Smith Ph.D.. This book was released on 2022-08-01. Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following twenty years of close friendship with author Wilbert Smith, Vertus Hardiman reveals the truth about his horrifying experience hidden since age five. His life is a moving example of humility, success, and achievement while enduring long standing suffering. The story tells of Vertus Hardiman and nine other children, each attending the same elementary school in Lyles Station Indiana""who, in 1927, was severely irradiated during a medical experiment conducted at the local county hospital. The experiment was misrepresented as a newly developed cure for the scalp fungus known as ringworm. But in reality, the ringworm fungus was merely the lure used to gain access to children whose unsuspecting parents blindly signed permission slips for the treatment. Vertus was age five and the youngest. As remarkable and shocking as the story may appear, it is not an indictment on inhumane government-sanctioned medical experimentation. Rather, Hole in the Head: a Life Revealed reflects the incredible strength of one man who survived the harshest imaginable circumstances through the power of who and what he was determined to become. His simplicity and life philosophy always lifted the spirits of those he touched. Remarkably, not one person in Vertus's community was aware of his suffering because he always wore a wig or woolen beanie cap to hide his shame. He stated, "For over seventy-one years, only four individuals outside a few medical specialists have ever seen my condition. I hide it because I look like some monster." But in reality, Vertus was the kindest example of human love Wilbert had ever met""always choosing love over hate and success over excuses and failure. This incredible story inspires us to change our outlook on life, while teaching the true meaning of love, forgiveness, and acceptance. Journey with us through this rich and unforgettable story
Like a Hole in the Head
Like a Hole in the Head - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Like a Hole in the Head write by Jen Banbury. This book was released on 1999-04-01. Like a Hole in the Head available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After buying and reselling a valuable book, Jill must find the current owner or lose her life to the assassin who demands she return the book to him
Like a Hole in the Head
Like a Hole in the Head - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Like a Hole in the Head write by James Hadley Chase. This book was released on 2000-09. Like a Hole in the Head available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ex-army musketry trainer, Jay Benson and his wife Lucy's dream of running a shooting school turns sour as the school heads towards certain closure. They need money - quickly, and a lot of it. At the eleventh hour Augusto Savanto, head of a vast corporation in Venezuela, walks into their lives with a proposition they can scarcely refuse - he will pay them $50,000 to turn his son into an expert marksman, in nine days. Desperate for money they accept the challenge but find themselves in a deadly game of ruthless vendettas and vengeful murder.
Bore Hole
Bore Hole - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bore Hole write by Joe Mellen. This book was released on 2015-10-29. Bore Hole available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A heavily expanded edition of Joe Mellen's legendary, long out-of-print auto-trepanation memoir. A heavily expanded edition of Joe Mellen's legendary, long out-of-print auto-trepanation memoir, Bore Hole takes us deep into the dawning of the UK's psychedelic counter culture, and into a mind breaking free from the confines of a traditional English upbringing. Travelling to Morocco and Ibiza, then back to the first spring of swinging London, Joe Mellen discovers the pleasures of hashish, is captivated by the visionary intensity of LSD and, after meeting the Dutch psychedelic guru Bart Huges, attempts the ultimate head trip, the bore hole. As well as a selection of unseen archive photographs, this edition includes a new postscript, essays, appendices and a 1967 interview with Bart Huges.
