Reviews
Devices that simulate, replace, or bypass nerves have the potential to help those disabled with nervous system and sensory disorders. Science and technology journalist Chase explores the world of these up-and-coming technologies.
[A] calm, competent, contemporary account of the development of devices to repair nervous systems responsible for the senses, movement and other functions.
Chase achieves his formidable aim, enabling the reader to make connections between scientific endeavor and its application to the lives of the vivid individuals to whom he introduces us.
Comprehensive and easily readable... Shattered Nerves weaves a history of how a field evolves.
Best of 2006
This is dramatic stuff... The book is a valuable introduction to an important subject.
Because of the interdisciplinary nature of neural prosthetic research, this book will attract graduate students and professionals in medicine, engineering, chemistry, computer research. Perhaps those who could benefit the most from reading it, however, are bright undergraduates; the researchers' stories, and the discussion of the impact they have had on their research subjects' lives, may help college students in search of career direction.
Victor Chase eloquently discusses the 'human machine' and how the harmful effects of faulty wiring and misfiring electrics can be reversed by modern technology
Victor Chase has looked into the future of broken nervous systems and how we might fix them—with all of the corresponding hopes and perils. It is a fascinating book, both stimulating and exciting, and makes you think about what it means to be human.
A marvelous synthesis of new ideas.
Book Details
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
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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