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

by Mason, Michael Paul, 1971-

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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- United States -- Case studies.

Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- Rehabilitation -- United States -- Case studies.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0743/2007032335-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0743/2007032335-b.html

9780374134525 (hardcover : alk. paper) :

0374134529 (hardcover : alk. paper) :

310 p. ; 22 cm.

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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