Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Sciene
Author: John Fleischman
Genre: Nonfiction / biography
Phineas Gage is a foreman that survived an accident with explosives, despite his terrible brain injury involving a hole in his head.
He had a “complete recovery” and went on to have many jobs and travel the world. It changed him forever, and changed what people thought of him. Basically, the theme is about luck. The author says he was lucky because he helped improved our brain science. I think he was lucky. It could have gone through a major blood vessel.
I didn’t like the book because it was slow in some parts of the book. It was hard to understand the vocabulary words, and medical terms. There were also parts that were unidentified, like the part when about the stagecoach and museum. I would rate this two stars out of five because it’s not my cup of tea. I wouldn’t recommend it to people with poor vocabulary.
Genre: Nonfiction / biography
Phineas Gage is a foreman that survived an accident with explosives, despite his terrible brain injury involving a hole in his head.
He had a “complete recovery” and went on to have many jobs and travel the world. It changed him forever, and changed what people thought of him. Basically, the theme is about luck. The author says he was lucky because he helped improved our brain science. I think he was lucky. It could have gone through a major blood vessel.
I didn’t like the book because it was slow in some parts of the book. It was hard to understand the vocabulary words, and medical terms. There were also parts that were unidentified, like the part when about the stagecoach and museum. I would rate this two stars out of five because it’s not my cup of tea. I wouldn’t recommend it to people with poor vocabulary.
