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The Terminal Man
Michael Crichton

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The Terminal Man

Ballantine Books (Jul 12, 1988)
9780345354624
| Mass Market Paperback
268 pages | 97 x 170 mm | English
Dewey 813.54

Genre

  • Fiction
  • Medical Novels

Subject

  • Human Experimeentation In Medicine
  • Medical Novels
  • Psychosurgery-Fiction
  • Science Fiction
  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Plot

Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So much so that he requires a police guard when entering a Los Angeles hospital for treatment.Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson through a procedure known as stage three. During this highly specialized surgery, electrodes are placed deep in Benson's brain, sending monitored soothing pulses to its pleasure canyons.The operation is a success -- until Benson discovers how to get the pulses with increasing frequency. He escapes from the hospital, a homicidal maniac with a deadly agenda....

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