Patient H69 : the story of my second sight
Potter, Vanessa2017
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Imagine what it would be like to one day wake up and find that you were suddenly completely blind. This is what happened to Vanessa Potter. Her condition is unique. It has no name. Over the course of the next six months, Vanessa slowly recovered her vision. Opening her eyes onto a watery, two-dimensional landscape, she saw an unrecognisably monochromatic world. As colour reappeared, Vanessa encountered a range of bizarre phenomena, from synaesthesia to discussions with inanimate objects - all part of her brain's mechanism for coping with the trauma of sensory loss and the recovery of her optic nerves. This volume is based on the detailed diaries Vanessa kept during her time of blindess and the scientific research that followed.
Main title:
Patient H69 : the story of my second sight / Vanessa Potter.
Author:
Potter, Vanessa, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017.
Collation:
288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781472936103 (hbk)
Dewey class:
362.41092920.POTTB POT362.41B/POT920362
LC class:
HV1947
Local class:
B POT920.1
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1894398