I attended Dittrich’s lecture in part because I had long been interested in the history of neuroscience but also because the subtitle of his book—Patient H. M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets—caught my eye. His family’s secrets were very different from my own, but what he and I shared was the long lens through which we were forced to see the context of the times.
Highlighted because I’d also like to read this.
