The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture

Wilson, Frank R.

ISBN 10: 0679412492 / ISBN 13: 9780679412496

Editore: Pantheon, 1998

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• Titolo: The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
• Editore: Pantheon
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0679412492
• ISBN 13: 9780679412496
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: good

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Riassunto

Drawing from anthropology, physiology, and neurology, and using the examples of jugglers, surgeons, musicians, and puppetmakers, the author explores the role of the hand in how humans learn and form their identities. 20,000 first printing.

Informazioni sugli autori

Frank R. Wilson is a neurologist and the medical director of the Peter F. Ostwald Health Program for Performing Artists at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco. He is a graduate of Columbia College in New York City and of the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco. The author of Tone Deaf and All Thumbs?, he lives with his wife, Patricia, in Danville, California. He can be reached by e-mail at handoc@well.com.

Frank R. Wilson is a neurologist and the medical director of the Peter F. Ostwald Health Program for Performing Artists at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco.