Disturbances of the Mind
From the cover:

Psychiatrists and neurologists honour their colleagues by naming diseases after their discoverers. Alois Alzheimer, James Parkinson, Georges Gilles de la Tourette , Hans Asperger — all were once men of flesh and blood whose names now signify a disease, a syndrome or an autistic disorder. In the process they lost their first names, and soon the memory of their lives and the circumstances of their discoveries vanished. In Disturbances of the Mind, Douwe Draaisma reconstructs the histories of thirteen “names” in the science of the mind and the brain. Who were these men, and what exactly did they discover? Who were their patients? Doctors like Parkinson, Alzheimer, Korsakov and Asperger, but also lesser known psychiatrists like Capgras and Clérambault had a talent that reminds one of Oliver Sacks: by writing the history of a disease, their patients come to life, seem to stand up from the paper and walk into the reader’s memory. Disturbances of the Mind offers a surprising and at the same time moving view of the recent history of brain research.

Publishing details:
Douwe Draaisma, Ontregelde Geesten. Ziektegeschiedenissen (2006)
ISBN: 978-90-6554-450-6
288 pp, with 46 illustrations
German rights sold to Eichborn Verlag
Polish rights sold to Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy (PIW)
English rights sold to Cambridge University Press

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