Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1906)įile:File:Santiago Ramón y Cajal signature.png Laura Otis, whose dual background in literature and science echoes that of the author, has crafted a sparkling translation that captures the wit and imagination of the original.This name uses Spanish naming customs the first or paternal family name is Ramón and the second or maternal family name is Cajal. Now available for the first time in English, Ramon y Cajal's stories reveal a great deal about human nature and the collusion of ambition and greed that prey on the hapless and thoughtless, whether in the name of science, religion, or the state.
Another's bitterness and disillusion are cured by a supernatural intervention that melds the epiphany of A Christmas Carol with the macabre detail of an Edgar Allan Poe story. One man's faith in science gives him the tools to outwit superstition and win the true love and happiness for which he has sacrificed. Critical thought vies with moribund tradition and stifling religion for a hold on the human spirit rigid divisions of class and wealth dissolve before the indiscriminate assault of microbes. Here revenge is disguised as research and common fraud as moral purification. Featuring the cutting-edge science of the mid-1880s (microscopy, bacteriology, and hypnosis), they probe the seductive power that proceeds from scientific knowledge and explore how the pursuit of such knowledge alternately redeems and ensnares humanity. Ramon y Cajal waited almost twenty years to publish these stories because he feared they would compromise his scientific career. The previous year, he published these stories: five ingenious tales that take a microscopic look at the nature, allure, and danger of scientific curiosity.
About the BookA world-famous neurobiologist, Santiago Ramon y Cajal won the Nobel Prize for his scientific research in 1906.
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