Fearful Asymmetry: Bouillaud, Dax, Broca, and the Localization of Language, Paris, 1825-1879

by Richard Leblanc

Paul Broca made the most significant discovery in nineteenth-century human biology when he found that speech resides within the left frontal lobe of the human brain. As a young surgeon working at the hospice at Bic?tre on the outskirts of Paris ? a repository for the criminal, the insane, the indigent, and the sick ? Broca had to overcome derision, acrimony, personal attacks, vindictiveness, and prevailing doctrines before his findings were accepted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773551328
• ISBN13: 9780773551329
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"