Medicine and Modernism: A Biography of Henry HeadThis is the first in depth study of the English neurologist and polymath Sir Henry Head (1861 1940). Head bridged the gap between science and the arts. He was a published poet who had close links with such figures as Thomas Hardy and Siegfried Sassoon. His research into the nervous system and the relationship between language and the brain broke new ground. L. S. Jacyna argues that these advances must be contextualized within wider Modernist debates