Henry Head and the Theatre of Reverie
In 1903, the neurologist Henry Head (1861-1940) embarked on a painful self-experiment, in which he severed the radial nerve of his left arm, and then charted the gradual and faltering return of sensitivity to the limb over the next four and a half years. To directly experience his own sensations, He...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2011-04-01
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| Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
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| Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/595 |