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Author:

Chase, Victor D., 1942-

Title:

Shattered nerves : how science is solving modern medicine's most perplexing problem / Victor D. Chase.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xiii, 289 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Neural stimulation.
Myoelectric prosthesis.
Implants, Artificial.
Nervous System Diseases--rehabilitation.
Electric Stimulation.
Electrodes, Implanted.
Prostheses and Implants.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-280) and index.

Contents:

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. The ethics -- 17. Biomimetic and superhuman.

ISBN:

9780801885143 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
0801885140 (hdbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006009626

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)