Title:
Head cases : stories of brain injury and its aftermath / Michael Paul Mason.
ISBN:
9780374134525
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Physical Description:
310 pages ; 22 cm
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.
OCLC Number:
ocn164802574
Availability:
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