Head cases : stories of brain injury and its aftermath / Michael Paul Mason.
By: Mason, Michael Paul.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008Edition: 1st ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 310 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780374134525 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0374134529 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- United States -- Case studies | Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- Rehabilitation -- United States -- Case studies | Health services accessibility -- United States | Long-term care of the sick -- United StatesDDC classification: 617.4/810443 Online resources: Publisher description | Contributor biographical informationItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 617.481 M381 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003688413 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 resurrection of Doug Bearden -- Ultraviolent Bryan -- 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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