Tell me the planets : stories of brain injury and what it means to survive / Ben Platts-Mills.
By: Platts-Mills, Ben [author.].
Publisher: Great Britian, UK : Fig Tree, ©2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 243 p: illustrations, ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780241257210.Other title: Stories of brain injury and what it means to survive.Subject(s): Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation | Brain damage -- Patients -- Services forGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: In Tell Me the Planets, Ben Platts-Mills tells stories about his work with survivors of brain injury, offering a rare glimpse into the world as seen through their eyes: charismatic Danny, whose criminal past has left him paralysed down one side, but who now helps others worse off than himself; Sid, whose memory for the present lasts only moments; and Liah, who is caught in a battle with the care system threatening to make her homeless. But above all this is the story of the extraordinary friendship between Ben and Matthew, following their attempts to discover what has happened to Matthew's brain and how he might begin to rebuild his life. It is a journey that takes them to the frontiers of science and to the limits of human resilience: when they discover that the cyst is growing again, Matthew is left with an impossible decision to make.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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In Tell Me the Planets, Ben Platts-Mills tells stories about his work with survivors of brain injury, offering a rare glimpse into the world as seen through their eyes: charismatic Danny, whose criminal past has left him paralysed down one side, but who now helps others worse off than himself; Sid, whose memory for the present lasts only moments; and Liah, who is caught in a battle with the care system threatening to make her homeless. But above all this is the story of the extraordinary friendship between Ben and Matthew, following their attempts to discover what has happened to Matthew's brain and how he might begin to rebuild his life. It is a journey that takes them to the frontiers of science and to the limits of human resilience: when they discover that the cyst is growing again, Matthew is left with an impossible decision to make.