Losing Touch: A man without his body - Image 1

£50.00

Oxford University Press Losing Touch: A man without his body

Name: Losing Touch: A man without his body
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 50.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Psychology

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£50 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 74 days • 74 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 74 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £50 (74 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £50 - £50

Price levels: 1 different prices over 74 days

Description

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 unable to move, he felt disembodied and frightened. Then, slowly, he taught himself to dress, eat and walk by thinking about each movement and with visual supervision. In Losing Touch, the narrative moves between biography and scientific research, theatre, documentary and zero gravity. He has been married three times, and built up successful careers in disability access audit, using his impairment to his advantage, and in rare turkey breeding and journalism. The neuroscience has led to data on movement without feedback, the pleasantness of touch, gesture, pain and body orientation in space. The account shows how the science was actually done but also reveals Ian's journey from passive subject to informed critic of science and scientists and that the science has given him both more understanding but also greater confidence personally. His unique response to such a rare condition has also led to a BBC documentary, theatrical portrayals and a weightless flight with NASA. As a young man he sought triumph over his impairment; now, nearly 65, he has more mature reflections on living with such an extraordinary loss, the limits it has imposed and the opportunities it has enabled. He gives his views on scientists and on others he has met including Oliver Sacks and Peter Brook. In an Afterword those from science, the arts and philosophy give an appreciation of his contribution. The book is the result of nearly 30 years close collaboration between author and subject.

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0198778872
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Psychology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 June 2016
Listed Since: 07 March 2016

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press Losing Touch: A man without his body

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Neurophysiological Basis of Motor Control

Movement 2019: Brain, Body and Cognition

Brain and Behaviour: Revisiting the Classic Studies (Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies)

Space-Time Geometries for Motion and Perception in the Brain and the Arts (Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis)

Sensorimotor Control of Movement and Posture: 508 (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 508)

Lifespan Neurorehabilitation: A Patient-Centered Approach from Examination to Interventions and Outcomes

Sensorimotor Control of Movement and Posture: 508 (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 508)

Human-Robot Body Experience (Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems)

Neurobiology of Motor Control: Fundamental Concepts and New Directions

Sensorimotor Impairment in the Elderly: 75 (NATO Science Series D:, 75)

Sensory Re-Education of the Hand

Anstaltsneurologie: Verlauf und Therapie der chronischen Nervenkrankheiten

Brain-Computer-Interfaces in their ethical, social and cultural contexts: 12 (The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology, 12)

Handbook of Neurological Rehabilitation

Dexterity and Its Development (Resources for Ecological Psychology Series)

Handbook of Neurological Rehabilitation

Surgical Rationales in Functional Reconstructive Surgery of the Upper Extremity

Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation IV: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Neurorehabilitation ... 2020: 28 (Biosystems & Biorobotics, 28)

Electronic Spatial Sensing for the Blind: Contributions from Perception, Rehabilitation, and Computer Vision: 99 (NATO Science Series E:, 99)

Dexterity and Its Development (Resources for Ecological Psychology Series)

Rhinencephalon, Tabes dorsalis and Elpenor's Syndrome: The Fascinating Stories Behind These and Other Neuroscience Terms

Three-dimensional Kinematics of the Eye, Head and Limb Movements

In touch with the future: The sense of touch from cognitive neuroscience to virtual reality

Human-Aware Robotics: Modeling Human Motor Skills for the Design, Planning and Control of a New Generation of Robotic Devices: 145 (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 145)