gray matters: a biography of brain surgery

＂A popular biography of brain surgery told by one of its preeminent practitioners＂--

THEODORE H. SCHWARTZ, MD, is the David and Ursel Barnes Endowed Professor of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery at Weill Cornell Medical Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital, one of the busiest and most highly ranked neurosurgery centers in the world. He has published over five hundred scientific articles and chapters on neu­rosurgery, and has lectured around the world--from Bogotá to Vienna to Mumbai--on new, minimally invasive surgical techniques that he helped develop. He also runs a basic science laboratory devoted to epilepsy research. He studied philosophy and literature at Harvard.