Review
This is a remarkable book based on thorough research; it is written in an easygoing, readable style, and clinical cases are carefully worded . . .[It is] full of interesting stories about the development of aphasiology.
(Choice )
As a demonstration of the possibilities opened up by certain strategies of textual analysis the book is very successful. . . . Lost Words makes a welcome and useful contribution, not least because it wears its metaphysics lightly.
(Kurt Danziger British Journal for the History of Science )
A thought-provoking volume reviewing writings covering 100 years in the scientific study of aphasia. If Jacyna's argument is accepted, today's neuroscientists will need to change their ways.
(Erwin M. Segal Journal History of Behavioral Sciences )
A highly reflective, historically meticulous study. It is an excellent book crafted with respect to language in both content and form, which should be a standard reference point in the history of neurology and neuroscience.
(Roger Smith Medical History )
(Choice )
As a demonstration of the possibilities opened up by certain strategies of textual analysis the book is very successful. . . . Lost Words makes a welcome and useful contribution, not least because it wears its metaphysics lightly.
(Kurt Danziger British Journal for the History of Science )
A thought-provoking volume reviewing writings covering 100 years in the scientific study of aphasia. If Jacyna's argument is accepted, today's neuroscientists will need to change their ways.
(Erwin M. Segal Journal History of Behavioral Sciences )
A highly reflective, historically meticulous study. It is an excellent book crafted with respect to language in both content and form, which should be a standard reference point in the history of neurology and neuroscience.
(Roger Smith Medical History )
Review
Dr. Jacyna is one of the leading scholars in the new research program exploring the history of the brain sciences, helping to reconstruct an important story for our time. In Lost Words, he demonstrates the combination of scholarly and intellectual qualities that specialists have come to expect from him. This is state-of-the-art history of science.
(Mark S. Micale, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign )
(Mark S. Micale, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign )
