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Author Mason, Michael Paul, 1971-

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

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

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 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  617.4 MASON, MICHAEL PAUL    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  617.481 MAS    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  617.48 MAS    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  617.4 MASON    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  617.481 MAS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  617.481 M38    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  617.481 MAS    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  617.481 MASON    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  617.481 MASON    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  617.481 MASON    Lost and Paid
Edition First edition.
Description 310 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-298) and index.
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.
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.
Subject 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 -- United States.
ISBN 9780374134525 hardcover alkaline paper
0374134529 hardcover alkaline paper
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