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See Byatt, “The Pink Ribbon” in Little Black Book of Stories (Vintage, 2003): 199–236. Some recent examples of memoirs of brain injury or stroke include Paul West, The Shadow Factory (Lumen, 2008); Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight (Viking, 2008); P.J. Long, Gifts from the Broken Jar (Equilibrium, 2004); and Claudia Osborn, Over My Head: A Doctor’s Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out (Andrews McMeel, 2000).
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Holmes, M.S. Writing Neurology: Selected Essays and Poetry by Floyd Skloot. J Med Humanit 30, 1–28 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-008-9073-1
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