Luke Dittrich’s quest to understand the amnesiac patient who taught the world so much about memory – and ourselves – leads him to the shoals of his own family tragedy, and an ending that will break your heart. is a fascinating, powerful investigation, a matroyshka doll of nested stories about the past and present, remembering and forgetting. "It felt as if I read this book in one breath. This is classic reporting and myth-making at the same time." (Colum McCann) In the process, he rescues an iconic life from oblivion. Luke Dittrich explores the limits of science and the mind. It deserves a spot next to the great medical histories The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Ghost Map, and The Emperor of All Maladies." (Susannah Calahan, author of Brain on Fire) And yet, it's still a page-turner that reads like a thriller. This book succeeds on every level: as a fresh look at the most famous patient in medical history, as an expose of our dark history of psychiatry and neurosurgery, and, most powerfully, as a deeply personal investigation into the author's past. " Luke Dittrich has achieved something remarkable in Patient H.M. "A remarkable examination of how neuroscience works" ( Economist, Books of the Year)
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