Description: Great Minds in Despair traces how the political climate of Nazism and forced migration of swathes of Jewish and oppositional scientists, physicians, and health care researchers from German-speaking countries influenced the development of neuroscience in North America during and after World War II.
Brief description: Frank W. Stahnisch is professor of history and holds the Alberta Medical Foundation / Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine and Health Care at the University of Calgary.
Review Quotes: "Based on a database of nearly four hundred curricula vitae, Frank Stahnisch's magnum opus towers over all other works in the field of neurohistorical research." Axel Karenberg, University of Cologne