Losing Touch: A Man Without His Body

by Jonathan Cole

What is like to live without touch or movement/position sense (proprioception)? The only way to understand the importance of these senses, so familiar we cannot imagine their absence, is to ask someone in that position. Ian Waterman lost them below the neck over forty years ago, though pain and temperature perception and his peripheral movement nerves were unaffected. Without proprioceptive feedback and touch the movement brain was disabled. Completely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198778872
• ISBN13: 9780198778875
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"