Shattered Nerves

How Science Is Solving Modern Medicines's Most Perplexing Problem

Victor D. Chase

298 pages, parution le 23/01/2007

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Once the stuff of science fiction, neural prosthetics are now a reality. Research and technology are creating implants that enable the deaf to hear, the blind to see, and the paralyzed to move.

Shattered Nerves takes us on a journey into a new medical frontier, where sophisticated, state-of-the-art medical devices repair and restore failed sensory and motor systems. In a compelling narrative that reveals the intimate relationship between technology and the physicians, scientists, and patients who bring it to life, Victor D. Chase explores groundbreaking developments in neural technology.

Through personal interviews and extensive research, Chase introduces us to the people and devices that are restoring shattered lives, from implants that enable the paralyzed to stand, walk, feed, and groom themselves, to those that restore bladder and bowel control, and even sexual function. Signals from the brains of paralyzed people are captured and transformed to allow them to operate computers. Brain implants hold the potential to resolve psychiatric illnesses and to restore the ability to form memories in damaged brains.

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?

L'auteur - Victor D. Chase

VICTOR D. CHASE is a science and technology writer who has written fora variety of publications, including Air & Space, IBM's Think Research, MIT's Technology Review, Nature Medicine, Popular Science, Science Digest, Notional Forum, R&D Magazine, Mechanical Engineering, and ''Environmental Health Perspectives'.

Sommaire

Learning to Listen All Over Again
The Body Electric
Of Frog's Leg and Transistors
The Grandfather of Neural Prostheses
Accidental Pioneers
Giving a Hand
Looking Back at an Empty Wheelchair
The Dirty Little Secret
Sound in the Brain
In the Eye oh the Beholder
Nerves of Platinum and Iridium
Pins and Needles in the Brain
From the Inside Out
Reaching the Depth of Depression
A Hole in the Center of the Brain
Ethics
Biomimetic and Superhuman

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Johns Hopkins
Auteur(s)	Victor D. Chase
Parution	23/01/2007
Nb. de pages	298
Format	15,7 x 23,6
Couverture	Relié
Poids	540g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780801885143
ISBN13	978-0-8018-8514-3