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Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole

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"Tell the doctor where it hurts." It sounds simple enough, unless the problem affects the very organ that produces awareness and generates speech. What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? Like Alice in Wonderland, Dr. Allan H. Ropper inhabits a world where absurdities abound:




— A figure skater whose body has become a ticking time-bomb




— A salesman who drives around and around a traffic rotary, unable to get off




— A college quarterback who can’t stop calling the same play




— A mother of two young girls, diagnosed with ALS, who has to decide whether a life locked inside her own head is worth living




How does one begin to treat such cases, to counsel people whose lives may be changed forever? How does one train the next generation of clinicians to deal with the moral and medical aspects of brain disease? Dr. Ropper and his colleague answer these questions by taking the listener into a rarified world where lives and minds hang in the balance.
Author Brian David Burrell
Narrator Paul Boehmer
Duration 9 hours and 6 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781494578220
Format Audiobook
Publisher Tantor Media, Inc
Genre Biography: general, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Biology, life sciences, Medicine: general issues, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Neurosciences, Science: general issues
Availability US

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