Shattered Nerves: How Science Is Solving Modern Medicine's Most Perplexing Problem

By Victor D. Chase

Book Overview

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 are also being recorded from the brains of paralyzed people to operate computers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801885140
• ISBN13: 9780801885143
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher