Healing the Brain - Couverture rigide

Freed, Curt; LeVay, Simon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0805070915 ISBN 13 : 9780805070910

Editeur : St Martin's Press, 2002

Synopsis

In May 1995, neurologist Curt Freed began one of the most dramatic experiments in the history of medicine: the attempt to treat sufferers of Parkinson's disease by grafting human stem cells into their brains. Of the forty patients who volunteered for Freed's new treatment, half underwent authentic surgery. The other half, who had received placebo surgery, felt their last hope dissolve into bitter frustration. But the hardest road lay ahead for those who had been given the highly experimental procedure. Healing the Brain captures the emotional events that unfolded in the months afterward as Freed, his researchers, and their courageous, desperate patients awaited the outcome and witnessed a moral debate unfolding across the nation over embryonic stem-cell medicine. Would the brain regenerate itself or reject the new cells? This pioneering team was willing to take perilous risks to find out.

Healing the Brain is a moving, fascinating narrative about discovery and disillusionment, conflict and compassion, suffering and - for some - amazing success.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

CURT FREED is the Director of the Neuroscience and Neurotransplant Programs at the University of Colorado and the Director of the National Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence

SIMON LEVAY, a Neuroscientist who has taught at Harvard Medical School and the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, is the author of The Sexual Brain and Queer Science.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St Martin's Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0805070915
• ISBN 13: 9780805070910
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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