Sentences with phrase «famous human case»

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But in any case, one consequence of the view Marian Evans came to articulate is that, for all the broad human sympathy for which she became justly famous, in one respect her sphere of sympathetic engagement contracted — namely, in the realm of religious experience.

To support these claims, Gould presented the case of Samuel George Morton, a 19th - century American physician and scientist famous for his measurements of human skulls, particularly their cranial capacity (the skeletal equivalent of brain size).

These are the accumulated reflections from a lifetime spent observing the extraordinary ways the human brain can misfire and misbehave: a man who believes his own leg does not belong to him, an autistic woman with a gift for understanding animals, and the man who mistook his wife for a hat — the case that inspired one of Sacks's most famous books.

Using a model of Parkinson's disease in which the toxin MPTP, made famous in book «The Case of the Frozen Addicts,» induces Parkinson's - like symptoms in humans and mice, Dr. Smeyne showed that mice infected with H1N1, even long after the initial infection, had more severe Parkinson's symptoms than those who had not been infected with the flu.

Working in New York City during the «60s, Paul Thek became famous for his series Technological Reliquaries, also known as «Meat Pieces,» unsavory wax sculptures of meat and human limbs enclosed in Plexiglas display cases.

In 1990, two years after NASA scientist James E. Hansen issued his now famous warning about climate change during a congressional hearing, Lindzen started taking a publicly contrarian stance when he challenged then - senator Gore by suggesting in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that the case for human - induced global warming was overstated and that natural climate variability could explain things just as easily.

The podcast I recommend, «More Perfect,» presents famous cases in a way that the creators think of as «human, surprising, cinematic.»

Authors from across the country each take on a famous labour case in a series of case studies, from early cases about constitutional jurisdiction (Snider; John East), though picketing classics (Hersees; Harrison v. Carswell), to more recent employment law and human rights milestones (Wallace; Meioren).