Greater than the parts: holism in biomedicine, 1920–1950

astounding impact of drug treatments for neurological and especially psychiatric disease, and the avenues that they opened for new experimental investigations into brain structure and function. All the history of neuroscience works mentioned above have their particular strengths, and weaknesses, and the present book is no worse, but also no better. It will no doubt find a home in libraries and reference collections, where it will complement, and be complemented by, other texts, but it unlikely to appeal to the individual purchaser.