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FEARFUL ASYMMETRY

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Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Preface

Author’s Note

PART ONE A Universe of Wonder within Our Tiny Globe

1 Science Must Begin with Myth

2 Gall and Flourens: Paris and Vienna, 1810–1824

3 Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud: Paris, 1825–1848

PART TWO Descartes’s Skull

4 Louis-Pierre Gratiolet: La Société d’anthropologie de Paris, 1859

5 Auburtin, Broca, and Tan: The Difference between Zero and One, February 1861

6 The Great Regions of the Mind, August 1861

7 Montpellier and the Métropole, March 1863

8 Uncertainty and Adversity, April–July 1863

9 Infamy and Chicanery, 1864

PART THREE A Singular Law

10 A Terse and Disdainful Report, December 1864– April 1865

11 An Inexplicable Mystery

PART FOUR The Critical Stage

12 Sinistrality, 1865

13 Broca’s Last Case, 1866

14 The Norwich Papers, 1868

15 Dynamic Asymmetry, 1875–1879

Epilogue: Cortical Localization after Broca

APPENDICES

1 Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Leborgne’s and Lelong’s Brains

2 Broca’s Papers on Language and Cerebral Asymmetry

Notes

Index