Shattered nerves : how science is solving modern medicine's most perplexing problem / Victor D. Chas...
Shattered nerves : how science is solving modern medicine's most perplexing problem / Victor D. Chas...
Shattered nerves : how science is solving modern medicine's most perplexing problem / Victor D. Chase.
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Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006.
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N616.8/56
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 289 p. ; 24 cm.
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 ey...
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Publisher
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006.
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
c2006.
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"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 narrative that reveals the intimate relationship between technology and the physicians, scientists, and patients who bring it to life, Victor D. Chase explores groundbre...
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Shattered nerves : how science is solving modern medicine's most perplexing problem / Victor D. Chase.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2006.
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N616.8/56
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74VKJ3WXXGwd
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ISBN
0801885140 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801885143 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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616.8
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991022172849702626
