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Losing Touch - A man without his body (Hardcover)
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Losing Touch - A man without his body (Hardcover)
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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.
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