Prologue -- The myth ; The training ; Penetrating head trauma ; Head-on collisions ; Sports neurosurgery -- Weighing the risks ; Where to begin? ; The hardest part is knowing when to stop ; Journey to the center of the brain ; A timebomb in the brain ; Too close for comfort -- Psychosurgery or psycho surgeon? ; Luck favors the prepared mind ; What is it like to be a brain? ; We tell ourselves stories in order to live ; The terminal man -- Epilogue.
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