Head cases : stories of brain injury and its aftermath / Michael Paul Mason.
- Mason, Michael Paul, 1971-
- Date:
- 2008
- Books
About this work
Description
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.
Publication/Creation
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Physical description
310 pages ; 22 cm
Contributors
Edition
1st ed.
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionWL354 2008M39hOpen shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780374134525
- 0374134529