The inward empire, mapping the wilds of mortality and fatherhood, Christian Donlan
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The inward empire, mapping the wilds of mortality and fatherhood, Christian Donlan
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322)
resource.biographical
autobiography
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The inward empire
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1040031073
Responsibility statement
Christian Donlan
Sub title
mapping the wilds of mortality and fatherhood
Summary
Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis shortly after his daughter's birth, the author compares the joy, heartbreak, and anxiety of his own neurological decline with his daughter's flourishing brain activity
Table Of Contents
The inward empire: the marrow of the skull: the birth of neurology and a basic guide to the brain -- Lost: the man who couldn't open a door: a guide to proprioception -- Help me: Phineas Gage, the most famous neurological patient in history -- The Frankenstein dance: the first recorded case of MS -- The dead teach the living: "I only observe, nothing more": Jean-Martin Charcot and the discovery of MS -- The ghost on the green: Myelin, the mysterious--and misunderstood--substance at the heart of MS -- Hyde: the viking gene, the equator, and vitamin D: the hunt for the possible causes of MS -- Inside the tent: the art of diagnosis -- The explorers' club
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Subject
- Biographies
- Biography
- Multiple sclerosis + Patients -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Sclérose en plaques
- Multiple sclerosis -- Popular works
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Donlan, Christian -- Health
- Sclérose en plaques -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation
- Autobiographies
- Nonfiction
- Autobiography
- Sclérose en plaques + Patients -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies
- Multiple sclerosis
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- Creator1
- Genre5
- Subject13
- Biographies
- Biography
- Multiple sclerosis + Patients -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Sclérose en plaques
- Multiple sclerosis -- Popular works
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Donlan, Christian -- Health
- Sclérose en plaques -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation
- Autobiographies
- Nonfiction
- Autobiography
- Sclérose en plaques + Patients -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies
- Multiple sclerosis
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- Author1
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