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Just a head : stories in a body / Denise Fassett, M.R. Gallagher.

Title
Just a head : stories in a body / Denise Fassett, M.R. Gallagher.
Author
Fassett, Denise, 1956-
Publication
St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1998.

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Gallagher, M. R., 1965-
Description
xviii, 148 p.; 22 cm.
Subject
  • Gallagher, M. R., 1965-
  • Medical personnel and patient > Australia > Case studies
  • Paralysis
  • Patients > Australia > Biography
  • Quadriplegia
  • Quadriplegics > Australia > Biography
  • Sick > Psychology
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Case studies.
  • Memoirs.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-145) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / M.R. Gallagher -- 1. Last day on legs -- 2. Writing the body -- 3. Reading the body -- 4. The body as text -- 5. Being 'basic nursing care' -- 6. Being unable to eat -- 7. Being 'just a head' -- 8. Lungs or legs -- 9. Being 'a psych consult' -- 10. Re-investing in science -- 11. Home at last -- 12. Being an institutionalised body -- Reflections / Denise Fassett.
ISBN
1864485655 : $29.95
OCLC
39290019
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library