Title: Into the magic shop
Description: The author relates how a chance encounter in a magic shop with a woman who taught him exercises to ease his sufferings and manifest his greatest desires gave him a glimpse of the relationship between the brain and the heart, and drove him to explore the neuroscience of compassion and altruism.
Subjects: Compassion, Neurosurgeons, Altruism, Mind and body, Biography, nyt:science=2016-03-13, New York Times bestseller, Neurosurgery, Surgeons, biography, Caring, Autobiographies
Places: United States
People: James R. Doty (1955-)