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Month: January 2010

JEAN DOMINIQUE BAUBY & THE POWER OF WORDS

JEAN DOMINIQUE BAUBY & THE POWER OF WORDS

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a book by Jean-Dominique Bauby of France which is very unique because Bauby "dictated" it while totally paralyzed with only the ability for some movement of his head and eyes. Bauby was the editor of the well known French magazine, Elle in December of 1995 when he suffered a massive stroke and went into a coma. When he came out of the coma he had a "locked in" syndrome – a poisoner within his own…

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