Contents

– Preface –

vii

– Birdwatching on the Pavements –

1

– Full of East End Promise –

15 – Charcot’s Parrot –

30 – This Is the Ritual –

54

– The Lost Soul of Neurology –

68 – Words –

79 – The Dead Hospital –

90 – Zadig and Voltaire –

107 – Resurrection –

127 – Machine Learning –

137 – Acknowledgements –

152