'Waking Is Rising and Dreaming Is Sinking': The Struggle for Identity in Coma Literature

M Colbeck - 2014 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
This thesis explores the representation of coma within contemporary fiction and non-fiction,
including Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares, Alex Garland's The Coma, Stephen …

'Is she alive? Is she dead?'Representations of chronic disorders of consciousness in Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend in a Coma

M Colbeck - Medical Humanities, 2016 - mh.bmj.com
Depictions of coma have come to dominate literary and filmic texts over the last half century,
a phenomenon coinciding with advancements in medical technology that have led to …

[PDF][PDF] Experiences of homelessness and brain injury

S Grant, A Atherton, J Brooks, M Colbeck, D Fortescue… - 2016 - shura.shu.ac.uk
Background Research1, 2, 3, 4 suggests that the prevalence of traumatic brain injury in the
homeless population is much higher than in the general population. This is consistent with …

[CITATION][C] The Language and Imagery of Coma and Brain Injury: Representations in Literature, Film and Media

M Colbeck - 2021 - Bloomsbury Publishing

[CITATION][C] There is the trouble, there is the toil: katabasis and the underworld topography of coma

M Colbeck - Harts & Minds, 2013