Creative Healing
Kodak used Shirley cards to standardize the reproduction and printing of skin tones. Shirley became a world wide norm reference for color balancing skin tones in photo labs. This norm created a Continue Reading →
Check Sharon A Gutman’s book on brain injury and gender role strains: Rebuilding adult lifestyles after brain injuries I will also be hosting a research symposium on brain injury recovery Continue Reading →
An Introduction to Process-oriented Coma Work Methods in Persistent Vegetative States and Coma. From my work as a head of a brain injury department in one of Switzerland’s leading rehabilitation Continue Reading →
As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the American with Disability Act this book reminds us of one of the last bastions of forgotten and marginalized individuals: people in coma Continue Reading →
Coma can be a result of either structural damage to the brain (traumatic brain injury, stroke, hypoxic damage to the brain) or metabolic changes such as from diabetes, renal failure, Continue Reading →
What is coma? What is a vegetative state? What are the possibilities for consciousness in coma? What makes a life worth living? In the wake of Terri Schiavo’s publicly debated Continue Reading →
Here is a comment from my neurosurgeon friend from Germany: thank you so much for your reference to “Inside Coma”, a book which for me will be a further milestone Continue Reading →
Coma is a deeply altered state of consciousness. It is usually defined as a condition with complete unawareness of the self and the environment. It can result from many medical Continue Reading →