Still Lives: Narratives of Spinal Cord Injury

by Jonathan Cole

Book Overview

An examination, through personal narratives and reflective commentary, of life without sensation or movement in the body.

In writing Still Lives, Jonathan Cole wanted to find out about living in a wheelchair, without having what he calls "the doctor/patient thing" intervene. He has done this by asking people with spinal cord injuries the simple question of what it is like to live without sensation and movement in the body. If...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262532840
• ISBN13: 9780262532846
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Eye-opening and thought provoking

I purchased this when I became friends with a man in a chair. I think it helped me understand better some of what he has had to deal with, and I hope it has made me a better friend to him.