Phantom Pains and Prosthetic Narratives - From George Dedlow to Dante

Klappentext Combines medieval studies and contemporary neuroscience to explore the fascinating and surprising concept of 'phantom limb pain'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Pain in the brain; 2. In search of phantoms; 3. False phantoms; 4. The case of George Dedlow: phantom limbs and resistance to prosthetic narrative; 5. Phantom pain and 'bodies in the brain'; 6. Augustine's 'body in the soul' and the continuity of pain; 7. Augustine's 'body in the soul' defended and derided; 8. Reluctant prostheses: the aerial embodiments of angels; 9. Eager prostheses: the aerial embodiments of separated souls; 10. Solving the pain problem: it's all in the soul; 11. Science and immortality.

Product details

• Authors: Alastair Minnis, Alastair (Yale University Minnis, Minnis Alastair
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781108970556
• ISBN: 978-1-108-97055-6
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Histories of Emoti; Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, MEDICAL / Neurology, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, pain; prosthesis; body schema; Augustine; Dante