Dr Allan Ropper

Updated and revised edition, with a new epilogue and interview with Michael J Fox Engagingly written, informative, often funny — Daily Telegraph Has the hard-boiled style of a Raymond Chandler novel — The Times Think Oliver Sacks meets Gregory House, with a sprinkling of a hypochondriac's worst nightmare — Sunday Times What is it like to try to heal the...

Hugely entertaining - Guardian Fascinating - Mail on Sunday In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpetriere Hospital, a place that was called a 'grand asylum of human misery'. Assessing the dismal conditions, he quickly upgraded the facilities, and in doing so, revolutionised the treatment of mental illness....