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Patient H69 : the story of my second sight / Vanessa Potter.
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Potter, Vanessa
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017.
Description
288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm.
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RE728.O68 P68 2017
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Subject(s)
Optic neuritis
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Patients
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Great Britain
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Biography
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Optic neuritis
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Case studies
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Blind
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Great Britain
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Biography
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Blind women
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Great Britain
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Biography
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Blindness
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Case studies
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People with visual disabilities
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Great Britain
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Biography
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Life change events
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Case studies
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Neurosciences
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Blindness
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Life change events
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Optic neuritis
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Potter, Vanessa
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Health
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Personal narratives
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Autobiographies
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Case studies
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Rare books genre
Biographies
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Getty AAT genre
autobiographies (literary works)
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Series
Bloomsbury sigma series ; bk. 23.
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Bloomsbury sigma ; book 23
Summary note
"In 2012, Vanessa Potter, a married advertising film producer with two young children, was stricken by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD), a rare illness that resulted in sudden blindness and paralysis. She was hospitalized for two weeks. Over the next five months at home, she regained mobility but recovering her sight was more problematic. At first what she saw was monochromatic. As color reappeared, she encountered synesthesia (experiencing odd responses to stimuli, such as hearing inanimate objects talk to her). While a multidisciplinary team of neurobiologists, psychologists, immunologists, and developmental biologists treated her, she blogged and kept audio-diaries, using the pen-name Patient H69. In her own words, Potter reveals the terror and torment of her blindness. Supported by neuroscientists and Britain's National Health Service, Potter became a science sleuth, uncovering some of the innermost functions of the brain and our complex visual system, while learning meditation and self-hypnosis to help herself endure the ordeal and make a miraculous recovery."--Publisher's website.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The story of Patient H69
part 1: Diary of events: MMXII ; Snake bite ; The pillow ; D-Day ; Home ; Mowbray Road ; Painting project 1
part 2: Diary of the science: The science of my sight ; The art of seeing ; Synaesthesia ; Memory ; Making no sense ; Cambridge Science Festival 2015 ; 20/200 ; Time traveller
Appendix I: The beach : a visualized sanctuary
Appendix II: Visualization guide.
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Other title(s)
Patient H six nine
Patient H sixty-nine
ISBN
9781472936103 ((hardback))
1472936108 ((hardback))
9781472936110 ((trade paperback))
1472936116 ((trade paperback))
OCLC
957139428
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