Notes on an Emergency

About the Book

This challenging, probing work about a woman's recovery from tubercular meningitis is both an intellectual and intensely personal exploration of the unconscious, the mental state of nothingness, identity, existentialism, medicine, religion, and most especially, love.

About the Author

Elizabeth Léonie Simpson has published nonfiction books (Norton, Ballinger, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, and Jossey-Bass), novels (Smith Publications), chapters in various books edited by others, articles in professional journals including book reviews, and short stories and poetry in a number of literary magazines. She is a University of California (Berkeley) Ph. D., with an interest in moral and political development throughout the lifespan who lives in Saratoga in northern California with her husband, John Wurr.