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By Stanley Finger. 416 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. $35. ISBN 0-19-508571-X.

What makes a book great? Essentially, a great subject and a great writer combined. Finger's book is in that league. The author, a psychologist and a historian of neuroscience, has chosen a biographical approach to explain how our knowledge of brain function developed. In the introductory pages, readers may feel that they are being put back in the classroom, with phrases such as "our journey" and "we shall see that." In the chapters that follow, however, one cannot help but be captivated and even enchanted by Finger's great storytelling. He combines narrative gifts with a wealth of background knowledge. This . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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