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Brain On Fire: My Month Of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
Category: Biography
An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity. When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and u ...Show more
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
Category: Biography
'My first serious blackout marked the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments of lucidity over the coming days and weeks, I would never again be the same person ...' Susannah Cahalan was a happy, clever, healthy twenty-four-year old. Then one day she woke up in hospital, with no ...Show more
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
Category: Biography Memoir
An award-winning memoir and instant "New York Times" bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, "Brain on Fire" is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity. When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed a ...Show more
The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan
Category: Science
From 'one of America's most courageous young journalists' (NPR) comes a propulsive narrative history investigating the fifty-year-old mystery behind a dramatic experiment that changed the course of modern medicine.
The Great Pretender - The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
Category: Biography
"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the untold history of the shocking experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR). For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you ...Show more
The Great Pretender - The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
Category: Science
For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness - how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people - clinically sane members of society - went undercover i ...Show more
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