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By Carl Zimmer. 367 pp. New York, Free Press, 2004. $26. ISBN 0-7432-3038-8.

As its title suggests, this book was written for interested nonmedical readers and for physicians other than neurologists, neuroscientists, or medical historians. But readers expecting a detailed analysis of the mind–body relationship should look elsewhere — for example, in Adam Zeman's Consciousness: A User's Guide (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003) or Antonio Damasio's Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (London: Pan Macmillan, 1995). The story that is told in Soul Made Flesh centers on the life and work of Thomas Willis (1621–1675) in a way that resembles both a biography and a eulogy.

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