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Phantom Pains and Prosthetic Narratives - From George Dedlow to Dante (Paperback)
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Phantom Pains and Prosthetic Narratives - From George Dedlow to Dante (Paperback)
Series: Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
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Loot Price R555
Discovery Miles 5 550
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'Phantom limb pain' designates the sensations which seem to emanate
from limbs that in reality are missing. The phrase was coined by
the American Civil War surgeon, Weir Mitchell, in reference to his
fictional amputee, George Dedlow. Contemporary neuroscience holds
that the brain encloses a schema which covers the whole body, and
asserts its unity even if certain parts are missing. Reading
backwards from Dedlow's sufferings, Alastair Minnis traces the
medieval precedents and parallels, focusing on Augustine and Dante,
who subscribed to the notion of a 'body in the soul'. Dante's souls
in purgatory self-prosthesize with aerial phantoms as they long for
the full embodiment which only the resurrection can bring. Is a
complete body necessary for personhood? And how can the gamut of
human feelings be run if parts or the entirety of one's body does
not exist? Combining medieval studies and contemporary
neuroscience, this absorbing study explores the fascinating and
surprising history of phantom pain.
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