The Body Silent

摘要: Winner of the Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award. Robert Murphy was in prime his career as an anthropologist when he felt first symptom a malady that would ultimately take him on odyssey stranger than any field trip to Amazon: tumor spinal cord progressed slowly and irreversibly into quadriplegia. In this gripping account, explores society's fears, myths, misunderstandings about disability, damage they inflict. He reports how paralysis-like all disabilities-assaults people's identity, social standing, ties with others, while at same time making love life burn even more fiercely.