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Matthew Colbeck is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English, University of Sheffield, UK.
An intriguing journey through the representation of brain injury in fiction, Colbeck's wide ranging analysis invites readers to consider the power of false conflations and highlights the deployment of soap opera paradigms of recovery and the re-purposing of old archetypes such as Lazurus. This book is relevant to anyone with an interest in illness narratives and cultural studies, or with a specific concern with the substantive topic of brain injury. * Jenny Kitzinger, Professor of Communications Research, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, UK * This is what the best work in medical humanities can do: move illuminatingly between scientific and cultural frames to explore both their conjunctures and disjunctures. Colbeck's exploration of coma states explores the gap between medical realities and popular representations in fiction, memoir, film and TV. Grounded in authoritative medical knowledge, it is also sympathetic to the emotional investments and fantasies that this blank spot in consciousness has produced across our culture. An important intervention in an emerging field. * Professor Roger Luckhurst, Geoffrey Tillotson Chair, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK *
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