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Striking back at stroke : a doctor-patient journal / Cleo Hutton and Louis R. Caplan.
- Title
- Striking back at stroke : a doctor-patient journal / Cleo Hutton and Louis R. Caplan.
- Author
- Hutton, Cleo, 1949-
- Publication
- New York : Dana Press, c2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RC388.5 .H88 2003 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Caplan, Louis R.
- Description
- xv, 240 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "At age 43, Cleo Hutton awoke to a frightening and completely unfamiliar world. In the prime of life, she experienced a devastating stroke. Suddenly unable to speak, understand, or even walk, Hutton found herself struggling first to survive and then to regain her physical skills and her independence." "Striking Back at Stroke is Hutton's personal journal of this trying time, detailing her hard-won success rebuilding a life in ruins and overcoming difficulties she never imagined confronting. Hutton's account of her experiences is interwoven with medical and scientific commentary by the leading expert in the field, Louis Caplan, M.D., who explains Hutton's case in terms of what scientists and doctors have come to know about strokes. Caplan also focuses his observations on how the medical system served her, as well as on the shattering effects a stroke can have on the families of patients."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Diaries
- Diaries.
- Personal Narrative
- Popular works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Brain attack -- Stroke: the battleground -- The war of rehabilitation -- Heart surgery and wrestling with rehabilitation -- Again -- Homecoming -- On my own -- Gaining more than the stroke had taken.
- ISBN
- 0972383018
- LCCN
- ^^2002155047
- OCLC
- 51178103
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library