Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich

Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets

Luke Dittrich

480 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science reflective slow-paced

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"Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King"* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that ...

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