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Can I read Phineas Gage : a gruesome but true story about brain science on EtoBox?
Phineas Gage : a gruesome but true story about brain science by John Fleischman, John Fleischman is a children's nonfiction book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Phineas Gage : a gruesome but true story about brain science about?
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. A railroad construction foreman, Phineas was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived another eleven years and became a textbook case in brain science. But he was forever changed by the accident, and what happened inside his brain will tell you a lot about how your brain works and what makes us who we are.
Who reads Phineas Gage : a gruesome but true story about brain science?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- John Fleischman, John Fleischman
- Publisher
- Boston: Houghton Mifflin
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780756946562
- Category
- children's nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Medical
- Rating
- 3.59 / 5 (2,358 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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