Head Cases : : Stories of Brain Injury and its Aftermath
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The hermit of Hollywood Boulevard -- A prisoner of the present -- An insult to the brain -- Rob Rabe cannot cry -- Portrait of an injury -- The only thing that works -- The deaths & resurrections of Doug Bearden -- Bryan Larson's other health impairment -- Fugue of the pony soldier -- In all earnestness -- The hospital in the desert -- Wood of the suicides.
Mason gives a series of vivid glimpses into brain science, the last frontier of medicine, and explores fragility of the brain and the sense of self, life, and order that resides there.
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Good submitted by keldan315 on June 24, 2018, 11:17pm Very interesting, emotional, and easy to follow/read.
PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 310 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374134525 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0374134529 (hardcover : alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- Case studies.
Brain -- Rehabilitation -- Case studies.
Brain Injuries -- Personal Narratives.
Health Services Accessibility.