The Invisible Smile by Jonathan Cole
We are defined by our faces. They give identity but, equally importantly, reveal our moods and emotions through facial expression. So what happens when the face cannot move? This book is about people who live with Mobius Syndrome, which has as its main feature an absence of movement of the muscles of facial expression from birth.
We face people every daybut what if a rare congenital malady deprives a child of the power to smile or frown, to have any facial expression whatever? Dr Cole is an expert on this condition, and, along with Henrietta Spalding, who grew up with Möbius Syndrome herself, he presents the life stories of people with this neurological conditionand the varied ways in which they cope and adaptCole writes vividly, but with delicacy and sympathy, combining deeply personal portraits with pioneering scientific insight. * Oliver Sacks *
Möbius Syndrome is a rare condition that deprives its victims of something we all take for granted: the ability to express our emotions through facial expression. It is important to know more about this condition for human as well as scientific reasons. Jonathan Cole, who is the medical authority on Möbius, and Henrietta Spalding, who knows Möbius first hand, provide the best guide yet to the problem in a direct and readable text. * Antonio Damasio *
Möbius Syndrome is a rare condition that deprives its victims of something we all take for granted: the ability to express our emotions through facial expression. It is important to know more about this condition for human as well as scientific reasons. Jonathan Cole, who is the medical authority on Möbius, and Henrietta Spalding, who knows Möbius first hand, provide the best guide yet to the problem in a direct and readable text. * Antonio Damasio *
Jonathan Cole (MA, MSc, DM, FRCP) was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and The Middlesex Hospital and while there did his medical elective in New York with Oliver Sacks. He completed his training in London before returning to Oxford and then Southampton to do research. He now is a consultant in clinical neurophysiology and an academic, with over 70 papers and 200 publications in the control of movement without sensory feedback, affective or emotional touch and in chronic pain. He also believes that one must understand chronic impairment from a subjective, first person account and has published a series of books, on sensory loss, facial visible difference and spinal cord injury, exploring the first person experience of these conditions. He also collaborates with philosophers and choreographers on the consequences of his work for notions of embodiment and affective movement/position sense.
Henrietta Spalding (BA Hons) read Russian and American Studies at Keele University graduating in 1992. She spent 12 years working in education both in the UK and abroad. She has taught a wide variety of nationalities and ages of students from 5 year old upwards and including business teaching and Higher Education. Whilst living abroad she helped set up a support group for individuals and their families with Moebius Syndrome. On returning to the UK, five years ago, she became involved in the national charity, Changing Faces, which supports and represents individuals with disfigurements. She now heads their Professionals' Programme working to ensure every health clinic, school and workplace in the country is informed, skilled and able to address the psycho-social needs of people with disfigurements. She also lives with Moebius Syndrome herself.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198566397 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198566395 |
| Title | The Invisible Smile |
| Author | Jonathan Cole |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2008-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 247 |
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