Patient H M: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets

✍ Scribed by Dittrich, Luke

• Book ID: 109820918
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780812992731

✦ Synopsis

"Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King" in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M., a man who forever altered our understanding of how memory works --and whose treatment raises deeply unsettling questions about the human cost of scientific progress. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that has much to teach us about our relentless pursuit of knowledge.*

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*Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
In 1953, a twenty-seven-year-old factory worker named Henry Molaison--who suffered from severe epilepsy--received a radical new version of the then-common lobotomy, targeting the most mysterious structures in the brain. The operation failed to eliminate Henry's seizures, but it did have an unintended effect: Henry was left profoundly amnesic, unable to create long-term memories. Over the next sixty years, Patient...