Head Cases Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath

Name: Head Cases Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath
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ISBN: 9780374531959

ISBN-10: 0374531951

ISBN-13: 9780374531959

Edition: 2009

Authors: Michael Paul Mason, Michael Mason

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Head Casestakes us into the dark side of the brain in an astonishing sequence of stories, at once true and strange, from the world of brain injury.Michael Paul Mason is one of an elite group of experts who appear in the wake of tragic accidents and coordinate care that can last a lifetime. On the road with Mason, we encounter survivors of brain injuries as they struggle to map and make sense of the new worlds they inhabit. We meet a snowboarder whose life became permanently surreal after an errant jump; an "ultraviolent" child who has lost the brain's instinctive check on the impulse to strike out at others; a young man who cannot cry; and an Iraq war veteran whose odd maladies suggest that…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.81" wide x 8.22" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Michael Paul Mason, born in 1971, is a brain injury case manager based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.



Introduction


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


Conclusion


Appendix: My Breakfast with Marilyn


Notes and Sources


Resources for the Care and Management of Brain Injuries


Acknowledgments


Index