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Book review
Cécile and Oskar Vogt: the visionaries of modern neuroscience
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Edited by I Klatzo. Published by Springer Wien, 2002, pp 130, €76. ISBN 3-211-83798-1
This slender volume sings the praises of two pioneers of modern day neuroscience, Cécile and Oskar Vogt. Replete with fascinating insights into the culture of medical and scientific thinking in Europe at the turn of the 20th century and abounding with the author’s personal reminiscences of the Vogts, this is an informative, if highly personally coloured, biographical sketch and appraisal of these two neuroscientists. We are treated to the …