A life shaken : my encounter with Parkinson's disease / Joel Havemann ; foreword by Stephen G. Reich...
A life shaken : my encounter with Parkinson's disease / Joel Havemann ; foreword by Stephen G. Reich...
A life shaken : my encounter with Parkinson's disease / Joel Havemann ; foreword by Stephen G. Reich.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Date
2002.
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N362.1/144
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English
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xv, 185 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Denial and ignorance -- Myself before Parkinson's -- The magnificent brain -- Escaping abroad -- The darkest hour -- Today's drugs -- Today's surgeries -- An insidious beast -- Keeping the beast at bay -- Tomorrow's remedies.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
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Maryland
Date Published
2002.
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""I'm flat on my back on a couch that's too short in a windowless room in the bureau. I can't even sit at a computer, much less make a keyboard work. My arms and legs are shaking uncontrollably. Although I am only 53 years old, I have already been struggling with Parkinson's disease for seven years. And right now the disease is winning."" "So begin...
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A life shaken : my encounter with Parkinson's disease / Joel Havemann ; foreword by Stephen G. Reich.
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John Hopkins paperbacks edition, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N362.1/144
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74VvjxDObepb
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ISBN
0801878888 (pbk.)
9780801869280 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0801869285 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780801878886 (pbk.)
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362.1968330092
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991015304719702626
