The invisible smile : living without facial expression

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Cole, Jonathan, Author.

Contributor:

• Spalding, Henrietta, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Facial paralysis.
• Paralysis.
• Mouth Diseases.
• Neurologic Manifestations.
• Stomatognathic Diseases.
• Signs and Symptoms.
• Nervous System Diseases.
• Disease.
• Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms.
• Facial Paralysis.

Medical Subjects:

• Paralysis.
• Mouth Diseases.
• Neurologic Manifestations.
• Stomatognathic Diseases.
• Signs and Symptoms.
• Nervous System Diseases.
• Disease.
• Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms.
• Facial Paralysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 233 p.) : ill.

Other Title:

invisible smile

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title is about people who live with Mobius Syndrome, which has as its main feature an absence of movement of the muscles of facial expression from birth. The book allows children and adults with the condition to explain what it is like. These biographies reveal much about the relations between face and facial expression.

Notes:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.