how science is solving modern medicine's most perplexing problem /
First Statement of Responsibility
Victor D. Chase.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Baltimore, Md. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-280) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
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OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Shattered nerves.
International Standard Book Number
9780801885143
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Implants, Artificial.
Myoelectric prosthesis.
Neural stimulation.
Electric Stimulation.
Electrodes, Implanted.
Nervous System Diseases-- rehabilitation.
Prostheses and Implants.
HEALTH & FITNESS-- Diseases-- Nervous System (incl. Brain)