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A finalist for The Guardian First Book Award, and hailed as "a tour-de-force intertwining of the clinical, the personal, the fictive, and the philosophical" (Kirkus Reviews), Into the Silent Land is a stunning look into how the human brain constructs a "self," or the essence of who we are as individuals. A neuropsychologist with twenty-five years' experience and a runner-up for the prestigious Wellcome Trust Science Prize, Paul Broks fuses his own case studies, personal vignettes, philosophical debate, and thought-provoking riffs and meditations into a series of narratives that not only delve into the inner lives of his patients, but into a deeper understanding of how we define who we are.
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Het land van de stilte, Paul Broks
- Language
- Released
- 2003
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Het land van de stilte
- Subtitle
- neurologische vertellingen
- Language
- Dutch
- Authors
- Paul Broks
- Publisher
- De Bezige Bij
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 262
- ISBN10
- 9023412710
- ISBN13
- 9789023412717
- Series
- Tags
- Health & Medicine, Psychological Topics, Philosophical Topics, Science, Suspense, Medicine, Neuroscience, Transformation, Soul, Accident, Brain, People with Disabilities, Problems, Human Mind, Neuropsychology
- Original title
- Into the silent land
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- A finalist for The Guardian First Book Award, and hailed as "a tour-de-force intertwining of the clinical, the personal, the fictive, and the philosophical" (Kirkus Reviews), Into the Silent Land is a stunning look into how the human brain constructs a "self," or the essence of who we are as individuals. A neuropsychologist with twenty-five years' experience and a runner-up for the prestigious Wellcome Trust Science Prize, Paul Broks fuses his own case studies, personal vignettes, philosophical debate, and thought-provoking riffs and meditations into a series of narratives that not only delve into the inner lives of his patients, but into a deeper understanding of how we define who we are.