Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain - Hardcover
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A thriller that spans five centuries, Doctor Olaf Van Schulers Brain is entertaining and thought provoking. . . This book is eerie, sDevamını oku
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A thriller that spans five centuries, Doctor Olaf Van Schulers Brain is entertaining and thought provoking. . . This book is eerie, smart, unique, and very delicately crafted, telling many stories in every layer of time. . . Truly a pleasure to read.Feminist Review
In 1664 Dr. Olaf van Schuler flees the Old World and arrives in New Amsterdam with his lunatic mother, two bags of medical implements, and a carefully guarded book of his own medicines. He is the first in what will become a long line of peculiar physicians. Plagued by madness and guided by an intense desire to cure human affliction, each generation of this unusual family is driven by the science of its day: spontaneous combustion, phrenology, animal magnetism, electrical shock treatment, psychosurgery, genetic research. As they make their way in the world, New York City, too, evolvesfrom the dark and rough days of the seventeenth century to the towering, frenetic metropolis of toda
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