Right Hand, Left Hand

The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures

Chris McManus

  • 2003 Aventis Prize Winner for Best Book in Popular Science Writing. The prize is sponsored by the Royal Society, the UK national academy of science, and the generous support of the Aventis Foundation

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Dr Watson's problem

2. Death and the right hand

3. On the left bank

4. Kleiz, drept, luft, zeso, lijevi, prawy

5. The heart of the dragon

6. The toad, ugly and venomous

7. The dextrous and the gauche

8. The left brain, the right brain and the whole brain

9. Ehud, son of Gera

10. Three men went to mow

11. Keggie-hander

12. Vulgar errors

13. The handedness of Muppets

14. Man is all symmetrie

15. The world, the small, the great

Notes

Picture and Text Credits

Index

  • Cover: Right Hand, Left Hand

Chris McManus is Professor of Psychology and Medical Education at University College London, and co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health, and Medicine and the journal Laterality.