Paul Broca: Founder of French Anthropology, Explorer of the Brain

by Francis Schiller

Book Overview

This elegant and comprehensive scientific biography recounts the life of Paul Broca, one of the world's most inventive and prolific scientists, whose work touched not only the fields of surgery, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the neuropathology of speech, but statistics, hypnosis, blood transfusion, and the grounding of the French school of anthropology, as well. Although Broca is known primarily for providing the working basis for all future...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520315936
• ISBN13: 9780520315938
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"