Gray matters: a biography of brain surgery

Prologue

I: Beginnings. The myth

The training

Penetrating head trauma

Head-on collisions

Sports neurosurgery

II: How do brain surgeons think?. Weighing the risks

Where to begin?

The hardest part is knowing when to stop

Journey to the center of the brain

A timebomb in the brain

Too close for comfort

III: Who's in charge?. Psychosurgery or psycho surgeon?

Luck favors the prepared mind

What is it like to be a brain?

We tell ourselves stories in order to live

The terminal man

Epilogue

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index.