Head cases : stories of brain injury and its aftermath / Michael Paul Mason.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 310 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374134525
  • 0374134529
  • 9780374531959
  • 0374531951
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 617.4/810443 22
LOC classification:
  • RC387.5 .M377 2008
NLM classification:
  • 2008 L-330
  • WL 354
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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