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Author : Edward Alan Freeman
Publisher : Sheridan House Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780911378931
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (789 download)
Download or read book The Catastrophe of Coma written by Edward Alan Freeman and published by Sheridan House Incorporated. This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. A. Freeman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (918 download)
Download or read book The Catastrophe of Coma written by E. A. Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter McCullagh
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1922144320
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Ted Freeman and the Battle for the Injured Brain written by Peter McCullagh and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts some experiences of young Australians with catastrophic brain injuries, their families and the medical system which they encountered. Whilst most of the events described occurred two to three decades ago they raise questions relevant to contemporary medical practice.
Author : Gerry Canavan
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574287
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Green Planets written by Gerry Canavan and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science fiction, ecology, and environmentalism, the essays in Green Planets consider how science fiction writers have been working through this crisis. Beginning with H. G. Wells and passing through major twentieth-century writers like Ursula K. Le Guin, Stanislaw Lem, and Thomas Disch to contemporary authors like Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and Paolo Bacigalupi—as well as recent blockbuster films like Avatar and District 9—the essays in Green Planets consider the important place for science fiction in a culture that now seems to have a very uncertain future. The book includes an extended interview with Kim Stanley Robinson and an annotated list for further exploration of “ecological SF” and related works of fiction, nonfiction, films, television, comics, children’s cartoons, anime, video games, music, and more. Contributors include Christina Alt, Brent Bellamy, Sabine Höhler, Adeline Johns-Putra, Melody Jue, Rob Latham, Andrew Milner, Timothy Morton, Eric C. Otto, Michael Page, Christopher Palmer, Gib Prettyman, Elzette Steenkamp, Imre Szeman.
Author : John R. Beech
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134793774
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Assessment in Neuropsychology written by John R. Beech and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment in Neuropsychology is a practical and comprehensive handbook for neuropsychologists and other professionals who use neuropsychological tests in their everyday work. Each chapter outlines assessment procedures for specific functions such as language, visual impairment and memory. Case studies are used to illustrate their applications, pointing the professional towards the most relevant assessments for their clients' needs, and where and how they can be acquired. Leonora Harding and John R. Beech also explore new developments in neurological and neuropsychological assessment and clarify legal issues. Assessment in Neuropsychology will be an invaluable sourcebook for clinical psychologists, neurologists and other professionals as well as those in training.
Author : Prof. Ruthann Knechel Johansen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520927766
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (277 download)
Download or read book Listening in the Silence, Seeing in the Dark written by Prof. Ruthann Knechel Johansen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-03-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traumatic brain injury can interrupt without warning the life story that any one of us is in the midst of creating. When the author's fifteen-year-old son survives a terrible car crash in spite of massive trauma to his brain, she and her family know only that his story has not ended. Their efforts, Erik's own efforts, and those of everyone who helps bring him from deep coma to new life make up a moving and inspiring story for us all, one that invites us to reconsider the very nature of "self" and selfhood. Ruthann Knechel Johansen, who teaches literature and narrative theory, is a particularly eloquent witness to the silent space in which her son, confronted with life-shattering injury and surrounded by conflicting narratives about his viability, is somehow reborn. She describes the time of crisis and medical intervention as an hour-by-hour struggle to communicate with the medical world on the one hand and the everyday world of family and friends on the other. None of them knows how much, or even whether, they can communicate with the wounded child who is lost from himself and everything he knew. Through this experience of utter disintegration, Johansen comes to realize that self-identity is molded and sustained by stories. As Erik regains movement and consciousness, his parents, younger sister, doctors, therapists, educators, and friends all contribute to a web of language and narrative that gradually enables his body, mind, and feelings to make sense of their reacquired functions. Like those who know and love him, the young man feels intense grief and anger for the loss of the self he was before the accident, yet he is the first to see continuity where they see only change. The story is breathtaking, because we become involved in the pain and suspense and faith that accompany every birth. Medical and rehabilitation professionals, social workers, psychotherapists, students of narrative, and anyone who has faced life's trauma will find hope in this meditation on selfhood: out of the shambles of profound brain injury and coma can arise fruitful lives and deepened relationships. Keywords: narrative; selfhood; therapy; traumatic brain injury; healing; spirituality; family crisis; children
Author : Alex Garland
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440628300
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Coma written by Alex Garland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Carl awakens from a coma after being attacked on a subway train, life around him feels unfamiliar, even strange. He arrives at his best friend's house without remembering how he got there; he seems to be having an affair with his secretary, which is pleasant but surprising. He starts to notice distortions in his experience, strange leaps in his perception of time. Is he truly reacting with the outside world, he wonders, or might he be terribly mistaken? So begins a dark psychological drama that raises questions about the the human psyche, dream versus reality, and the boundaries of consciousness. As Carl grapples with his predicament, Alex Garland - author of The Beach and the screenplay for 28 Days Later, plays with conventions and questions our assumptions about the way we exist in the world, even as it draws us into the unsettling and haunting book about a lost suitcase and a forgotten identity.
Author : Eelco F.M. Wijdicks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199331235
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Comatose Patient written by Eelco F.M. Wijdicks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comatose Patient, Second Edition, is a critical historical overview of the concepts of consciousness and unconsciousness, covering all aspects of coma within 100 detailed case vignettes. This comprehensive text includes principles of neurologic examination of comatose patients as well as instruction of the FOUR Score coma scale, and also discusses landmark legal cases and ethical problems. As the Chair of Division of Critical Care Neurology at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Wijdicks uses his extensive knowledge to discuss a new practical multistep approach to the diagnosis of the comatose patient. Additionally, this edition includes extensive coverage of the interpretation of neuroimaging and its role in daily practice and decision making, as well as management in the emergency room and ICU. Dr. Wijdicks details long-term supportive care and an appropriate approach to communication with family members about end-of-life decision making. In addition, video clips on neurologic examination and neurologic manifestations seen in comatose patients can be found here: http://oxfordmedicine.com/comatosepatient2e. All video recordings from the first edition have been reformatted and remastered for optimal use, and several more video clips of patients have also been included.
Author : Cheryl Koenig
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458755800
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Paper Cranes written by Cheryl Koenig and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian.
Author : Robin Cook
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451159533
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (595 download)
Download or read book Coma written by Robin Cook and published by Signet. This book was released on 1977 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin Cook is the author -- and Coma is the book -- for which the term "medical thriller" was first used. It's a spine-chilling shocker about a crime beyond imagining and the committed young medical student who brings it to light. The surgery was routine -- the kind performed many times a day at Boston's most prestigious hospital. The teams that worked in OR;t make up for what was happening around them. Several patients, admitted to the hospital for minor surgery, never awoke. For some inexplicable reason, their brains had been destroyed
Author : Mike McCormack
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616952334
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Notes from a Coma written by Mike McCormack and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rescued from the squalor of a Romanian orphanage, and adopted by the rural community of west Mayo, J. J. O'Malley should have grown up happy. The boy has no gift for it, though, and his new life has a brutal way of giving him plenty to be unhappy about. After a sudden tragedy, J. J. suffers a catastrophic mental breakdown. Unable to live with himself, he volunteers for an improbable government project which has been set up to explore the possibility of using deep coma as a future option within the EU penal system. When his coma goes online the nation turns to watch, and J. J. is quickly elevated to the status of cultural icon. Sex symbol, existential hero, T-shirt philosopher─his public profile now threatens to obscure the man himself behind a swirl of media profiles, online polls, and EEG tracings. Five narrators─his father, neighbour, teacher, public representative, and sweetheart─tell us the true story of his life and try to give some clue as to why he is the way he is now: floating in a maintained coma on a prison ship off the west coast of Ireland. Brilliantly imagined and artfully constructed─merging science fiction with an affectionate portrait of small town Ireland─Notes from a Coma is both the story of a man cursed with guilt and genius and a compassionate examination of how our identities are safeguarded and held in trust by those who love us.
Author : Richard Doyle
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452905843
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Wetwares written by Richard Doyle and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dizzying tour of the ways technologies, both real and imagined, can transform humanity. The mind of the machine, the body suspended in time, organs exchanged, thought computed, genes manipulated, DNA samples abducted by aliens: the terrain between science and speculation, fraught with the possibility of technological and perhaps even evolutionary transformations, is the territory Richard Doyle explores in Wetwares. In a manner at once sober and playful, Doyle maps potentials for human transformation by new ecologies of information in the early twenty-first century. Wetwares ranges over recent research in artificial life, cloning, cryonics, computer science, organ transplantation, and alien abduction. Moving between actual technical practices, serious speculative technology, and science fiction, Doyle shows us emerging scientific paradigms where "life" becomes more a matter of information than of inner vitality--in short, becomes "wetwares" for DNA and computer networks. Viewing technologies of immortality--from cryonics to artificial life--as disciplines for welcoming a thoroughly other future, a future of neither capital, god, human, nor organism, the book offers tools for an evolutionary, transhuman mutation in the utterly unpredictable decades to come.
Author : Orlo H Clark
Publisher : JP Medical Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9351528065
Total Pages : 1368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Textbook of Endocrine Surgery written by Orlo H Clark and published by JP Medical Ltd. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook of Endocrine Surgery, Third Edition, is the latest edition of this highly illustrated, comprehensive guide. Edited by professors from the University of California, San Francisco, this authoritative textbook covers surgical procedures for a broad range of endocrine conditions. Enhanced by 550 full colour images and illustrations, Textbook of Endocrine Surgery is an invaluable resource for surgeons and endocrinologists.
Author : Conrad M. Swartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139478869
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Electroconvulsive and Neuromodulation Therapies written by Conrad M. Swartz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a psychiatric treatment involving the induction of a seizure through the transmission of electricity in the brain. Because of exploitation movies and greatly heightened drug company promotional activities ECT was used less frequently in the 1980s and 1990s. Eventually these movies were understood as unrealistic. Now these drugs are increasingly recognized as dangers to body health. Because of recent refinements and a far better scientific understanding of the clinical procedures and mechanisms underpinning ECT, this treatment modality has seen a resurgence in use and widespread appreciation of its safety. This book is the new definitive reference on electroconvulsive and neuromodulation therapies. It comprehensively covers the scientific basis and clinical practice of ECT as well as comparisons between ECT and medication therapies including the new generation of antipsychotic drugs. It also provides readers with administrative perspectives and specific details for the management of this modality in clinical practice. The new forms of nonconvulsive electrical and magnetic brain stimulation therapy are also covered in detail, in a separate section. The chapter authors are leading scholars and clinicians.
Author : Alexandra V. Treffer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781541291614
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Coma written by Alexandra V. Treffer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-25 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are convinced that you traveled in a world without love, where despise and hate you, destroyed underground base built by Nazi fanatics on a distant planet, you save the fantasy country from Golems and finally you survived the global catastrophe, it is a reality, or... In the book "Coma" in our reality coexist two parallels, in one of whom live and perform feats the main heroes, and the other, where operating the unfamiliar people somehow connected with what is happening in the first. They of becoming a mystery number one.
Author : Eelco Wijdicks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1945564199
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Guide to the Comatose Patient written by Eelco Wijdicks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring for a loved one in a coma is a distressing time, full of many questions, and often, not as many answers. Guide to a Comatose Patient is a first-of-its-kind book that steps into the shoes of the neurologist, to show the perspective of the staff caring for their loved ones — what worries us, how we think and intervene, what we can and cannot predict, and what we know as a certainty. In our hospital ICUs, there are more than a dozen comatose patients at any given point of time. Causes of coma can range from drug-induced coma—in which medications are used to calm the patient and allow the ventilator to work properly—to coma due to intoxication and coma related to a brain injury. No matter the reason, it can be a distressing time for loved ones. Guide to a Comatose Patient is a helpful guide for any family member or loved one confronted with coma. Author Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, M.D., Ph.D., a leading neurologist and attending neurointensivist at Mayo Clinic, begins each chapter by sharing helpful anecdotes from a career spanning four decades, before diving into the answers to commonly asked questions, such as: · What are the causes of coma? · When will the patient wake up and recover? · When is no recovery expected? · When should we consider organ donation? · What are the rates of survival? While there are many books on families’ experiences with acute traumatic brain injury and coma, Dr. Wijdicks offers an unusually candid conversation that allows a peek inside the minds of the doctors caring for your loved one. Having had many experiences talking to families having to make difficult decisions at a very difficult time, Dr. Wijdicks’s message is hopeful while remaining grounded in reality—a reality in which facts must dictate actions. Guide to a Comatose Patient provides important information so that families better understand treatment options, but most importantly, the book offers an open dialogue and optimal transparency to help provide hope and healing through times of grief.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Medical Clinics of North America written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
