Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath（原版外文书）
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作者Michael Paul Mason (Author)
出版社Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1 edition
ISBN9780374531959
出版时间2009
装帧平装
开本大32开
页数320页
货号4922
上书时间2016-12-07
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作者；Michael Paul Mason (Author)
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1 edition (April 28, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0374531951
ISBN-13: 978-0374531959
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
Head Cases takes us into the dark side of the brain in an astonishing sequence of stories, at once true and strange, from the world of brain damage. Michael Paul Mason is one of an elite group of experts who coordinate care in the complicated aftermath of tragic injuries 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.
Underlying each of these survivors' stories is an exploration of the brain and its mysteries. When injured, the brain must figure out how to heal itself, reorganizing its physiology in order to do the job. Mason gives us a series of vivid glimpses into brain science, the last frontier of medicine, and we come away in awe of the miracles of the brain's workings and astonished at the fragility of the brain and the sense of self, life, and order that resides there. Head Cases "[achieves] through sympathy and curiosity insight like that which pulses through genuine literature" (The New York Sun); it is at once illuminating and deeply affecting.
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been brought to the fore by the war in Iraq, but not only soldiers experience it. Mason, a case manager in Tulsa, Okla., for people living with TBI, writes with passion and urgency about the unheralded but compelling stories of Americans injured in car accidents or through a miscalculation while snowboarding. Their lives are disrupted by seizures, memory loss, psychosis. One of Mason's clients is an ambitious former air force officer who now goes into waking trances in which he thinks he's dead, as a result of a herpes virus emerging from its hiding place to invade his brain. Mason lays out a damning indictment of the health-care system's failure to provide facilities and services that millions like his clients need. He also tells stories of tremendous courage and perseverance as survivors and their families work to re-establish the everyday skills they had before their injury. The strange effects of neurological damage will draw fans of Oliver Sacks, but Mason's poignant and caring accounts of his clients' lives are sure to touch the hearts of a wide range of readers. (Apr.)
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From Booklist
Tulsa-based brain-injury case manager Mason presents the stories of a dozen clients who have suffered traumatic brain injury (TBI) with startling candor not just about how their lives and those of their families were altered by the disability but about the scant assistance available on a national scale for TBI victims. The book’s publicity claims readers will come away “astonished at the fragility of the brain.” But who doesn’t already know that? On the other hand, many don’t know that TBI can be caused from either without (an auto accident, a fall) or within (a tumor or even a common virus that many endure with minor symptoms yet that can travel to the brain), changing a life literally in an instant. Additionally, most don’t know how to differentiate between behaviors caused by TBI and those caused by psychosis. Cast against a backdrop of slim resources crying for more aid, the stories are heartbreakingly stark, like so many slaps upside the head, but, coming from a man who too often must deliver bad news, hard to counterpunch. --Donna Chavez --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
“Powerfully written . . . Head Cases sounds an alarm bell for our healthcare system.” ―Oliver Sacks
“Mason deftly conveys the frustrations and inequities of traumatic brain injury . . . [He] performs a valuable service by calling attention to the plight of the brain injured . . . I had come to think of neurological dysfunction as an almost fanciful affliction, its victims like characters in a work of magical realism. Mason has provided a needed, and sobering, account of reality.” ―Mary Roach, The New York Times Book Review
“One of my recent favorites . . . A sensitive and intelligent work.” ―Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist
“Vivid, heartbreaking [and] movingly written.” ―Irene Wanner, The Seattle Times
About the Author
MICHAEL MASON (born 1971) is a brain injury case manager based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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