Losing Touch
A Man Without His Body
Ian Waterman lost all sense of movement below the neck over forty years ago. Unable to move, he felt disembodied and frightened. Slowly, he taught himself to dress, eat and walk by thinking about each movement with visual supervision. Here we see the science behind this rare condition but also Ian's personal journey through his unique response
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-877887-5
- EAN: 9780198778875
- Produktnummer: 22157490
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H16.6 cm x B24.0 cm x D1.9 cm 470 g
- Gewicht: 470
- Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Über den Autor
A consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology at Poole Hospital and professor at the University of Bournemouth, Jonathan Cole trained at Brasenose College, Oxford and The Middlesex Hospital, London. His neuroscience research has focussed on sensory loss and motor control. Also interested in the experience of impairment, he studied with Oliver Sacks in the US in 1977 and has written several books; Pride and a Daily Marathon, about Ian's early experiences, About Face, Still Lives, on the experience of spinal cord injury and The Invisible Smile, on living without facial expression, and was an executive editor of The Paradoxical Brain, (Kapur, Ed).
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