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Article: Confronting Traumatic Brain Injury: Devastation, Hope and Healing.(Review)
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- The Hastings Center Report
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- March 1, 1999
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Confronting Traumatic Brain Injury: Devastation, Hope and Healing. William J. Winslade. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 220 pp. $27.50.
Many of us know Bill Winslade as the James Wade Rockwell Professor of Philosophy in Medicine at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. We do not know him as a survivor of traumatic brain injury. But as a toddler, he fell headfirst from a second-story porch. While he was unconscious and near death a local general practitioner saved his life by placing a shunt into his brain to prevent hydrocephalus. Winslade's injury was not trivial. A 1989 MRI of his brain included ...