Still Lives: Narratives of Spinal Cord Injury

by Jonathan Cole

Book Overview

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 the body has absented itself, where does the person reside? He describes his method in the first chapter: I have gone to people, not with a white...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262033151
• ISBN13: 9780262033152
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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.