Shattered nerves : how science is solving modern medicine's most perplexing problem / Victor D. Chase.

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

xiii, 289 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-280) and index.

1. Learning to listen all over again -- 2. The body electric -- 3. Of frogs' legs and transistors -- 4. The grandfather of neural prostheses -- 5. Accidental pioneers -- 6. Giving a hand -- 7. Looking back at an empty wheelchair -- 8. The dirty little secret -- 9. Sound in the brain -- 10. In the eye of the beholder -- 11. Nerves of platinum and iridium -- 12. Pins and needles in the brain -- 13. From the inside out -- 14. Reaching the depth of depression -- 15. A hole in the center of the brain -- 16. The ethics -- 17. Biomimetic and superhuman.