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| Publisher | اÙدار اÙعربÙØ© ÙÙعÙÙÙ |
| ISBN 13 | 9789953877488 |
| ISBN 10 | 9953877483 |
| Book Description | His friend "Loria," "the pioneer of newer and deeper medicine," said to him: "You are discovering an entirely new field. Please publish your observations. This will do something to change the 'veterinary' approach to peripheral disorders and open the way for deeper, more humane medicine." And this is exactly what the writer and renowned physician, who currently works at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine as a clinical professor of neuroscience, does. "The book can be considered a kind of neurological novel or short story, but it is a narrative rooted in personal experience and neurological truth," where the writer-physician expresses his personal experience with a specific medical approach resulting from an injury to his leg"a strange affecting injury resulting from an accident on a mountain in Norway." It is, in fact, "a chasm of peculiar and even terrifying effects," which left the writer "since then, with a deeper sense of the horror and wonder lurking behind life, obscured, so to speak, by the usual superficial appearance of health." In this narrative, as the narrator explains, "the main ideas blend with the specific neuropsychological and existential phenomena related to my injury and recovery, the matter of my being sick and my later return to the outside world, the complexities of the doctor-patient relationship, and the difficulties of communication between them, especially regarding an issue perplexing to both, and the application of my discoveries to a large group of patients." which ultimately led to a critique of current neuroscience and a vision of what neuroscience might become in the future. The writer divides his narrative into stations, starting with a description of his leg injury during a climbing trip and recounting the feelings and emotions he experienced: "I went through what I thought would be my last day on earth," and then describes how he was rescued. "And I became a patient" is the title of the second station, where he describes all that befell him during the period of illness and surgery, focusing on the reciprocal relationship between him and the doctor, and on the patient's condition expressed in the third station "the world of oblivion," depicting it as a journey "to and from despair, a journey of the soul." Following this is the stage of "activation," which he describes as "these endless and empty days at once." He raises in the fifth station how to implement "the solution of walking" and moving his injured leg, while he questioned: "How can I walk.," "How can I move this ghostly mass of gelatin. a mirage hanging loosely from my hip?" In the last two stations "recovery" and "understanding," the doctor explores feelings of healing and regaining freedom, and the state of comprehension and understanding of the medical experience. As for "The Commentary of 1991," the writer recounts the continuation of his story and its repercussions, concluding: "It is now the duty of neuroscience to make a great leap, to jump from a mechanical model, the 'traditional' model it has long adopted, to a model of the brain and the personal, entirely self-referential mind." |
| Author | اÙÙÙÙر ساÙس |
| Language | Arabic |
| Publication Date | 7/27/2009 |
| Number of Pages | 256.0 |
I want a leg to stand on
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