Something Hidden: A Biography of Wilder Penfield (Goodread Biographies)

By Jefferson Lewis

Book Overview

Wilder Penfield was one of Canada's greatest scientists, a man who combined skill as a surgeon with an insatiable curiosity about the inner workings of the human mind. Four times nominated for the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385176961
• ISBN13: 9780385176965
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Doubleday Canada
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.

Customer Reviews

More readable but similar to Penfield's autobiography

Written in a slightly more readable style than Penfield's own autobiography (_No Man Alone_), this work explores the life and times of Wilder Penfield, the revolutionary neurosurgeon who mapped the human cerebral cortex for the first time and pioneered surgery for epilepsy.I recommend Penfield's own work, because after the first couple of chapters, this book devolves into a recapitulation of that autobiography; whole sentences and even chapters appear to have been lifted wholesale from that work, with only the person changed from first to third. Still, the opening, explaining Penfield's little kindnesses on the eve of his 85th birthday, is worth a read for the true Penfield devoteé.