{"title":"João Lobo Antunes","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"egas-moniz-uma-biografia","title":"Egas Moniz: A Biography","description":"Based on numerous unpublished documents and letters, and the testimony of Egas Moniz's collaborators and family members, João Lobo Antunes presents the first biography of one of the most fascinating medical figures of the 20th century. The Portuguese physician made fundamental scientific contributions to medicine: angiography, a technique that allows the visualization of cerebral vessels, and psychosurgery, the first surgical treatment for certain psychiatric illnesses. António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz was born in 1874 in Avanca, Portugal, and graduated from the University of Coimbra. His thesis, entitled \"A vida sexual\" (Sexual Life), became a bestseller. In 1911, he transferred to the University of Lisbon as a professor of neurology. Until 1919, he was an active politician, serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Sidónio Pais and leading the Portuguese delegation to the Versailles Conference at the end of the First World War. The biography helps reveal the intriguing story of this important figure: politician, diplomat, man of letters and the world, successful clinician, and unlikely scientist, as well as the only Portuguese Nobel Prize winner (Egas Moniz received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1949) until Saramago. \"Egas was no saint: his ambition was overwhelming, and his vanity, which he vainly sought to hide behind a false, almost childish modesty, was immense. His life, which had everything, including, as we will see, sex (written) and violence (which was almost killing him), constitutes a fascinating novel. This is the story I will try to tell, arranging it not in perfect chronological order, but rather giving it a thematic structure, defining the most significant stages of a journey that was long and very rich in accidents,\" states the author.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176044544252,"sku":"9788520011270","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/4a82d363a2aa57bb62fb4e244df6034b_544644e3-5729-4601-bd60-44a122bff505.jpg?v=1778324725"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/joao-lobo-antunes.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}