Shattered nerves : how science is solving modern medicine's most perplexing problem / Victor D. Chase.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chase, Victor D., 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neural stimulation.

Myoelectric prosthesis.

Implants, Artificial.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This timely and important book explores troubling boundaries between restoration and enhancement, where implants could conceivably endow the able-bodied with superhuman capabilities. Chase concludes this fascinating book with a provocative question: Just because we can, does that mean we should?.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Learning to Listen All Over Again

2 The Body Electric

3 Of Frogs' Legs and Transistors

4 The Grandfather of Neural Prostheses

5 Accidental Pioneers

6 Giving a Hand

7 Looking Back at an Empty Wheelchair

8 The Dirty Little Secret

9 Sound in the Brain

10 In the Eye of the Beholder

11 Nerves of Platinum and Iridium

12 Pins and Needles in the Brain

13 From the Inside Out

14 Reaching the Depth of Depression

15 A Hole in the Center of the Brain

16 Ethics

17 Biomimetic and Superhuman

Selected Bibliography

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-280) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-9213-9

1-4356-9214-4

OCLC:

310116619