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A Cursing Brain? The Histories of Tourette Syndrome Soft cover - 2000
by Kushner, Howard I
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- Title A Cursing Brain? The Histories of Tourette Syndrome
- Author Kushner, Howard I
- Binding Soft cover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Glossary, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 011273
- ISBN 9780674003866 / 0674003861
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.15 x 5.8 x 0.86 in (23.24 x 14.73 x 2.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Tourette syndrome, Tourette syndrome - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.83
First line
Seated toward the back of a meeting room in a local hospital I listen to a speaker, a published writer in his early thirties.
From the rear cover
Tourette syndrome is a set of behaviors, including recurrent ticcing and involuntary shouting (sometimes cursing) as well as obsessive-compulsive actions. A Cursing Brain? traces the problematic classification of the syndrome through three distinct but overlapping stories: the claims of medical knowledge, the experiences of patients, and the force of cultural expectations and assumptions.