About Face

by Cole, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780262531634
• ISBN10: 0262531631
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-18
• Publisher: Bradford Books
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Summary

What is special about the face, and what happens when neurological conditions make expression or comprehension of the face unavailable? Through a mix of science, autobiography, case studies, and speculation, Jonathan Cole shows the importance not only of facial expressions for communication among individuals but also of facial embodiment for our sense of self. He presents, in his words, "a natural history of the face and an unnatural history of those who live without it." The heart of the book lies in the experiences of people with facial losses of various kinds. The case studies are of blind, autistic, and neurologically impaired persons; the most extreme case involves Mobius syndrome, in which individuals are born with a total inability to move their facial muscles and hence to make facial expressions. Cole suggests that it is only by studying such personal narratives of loss that we can understand facial function and something of what all our faces reflect.

Author Biography

Jonathan Cole, D.M., F.R.C.P., is Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology, Poole Hospital, and at Salisbury Hospital (with its Spinal Centre), a Professor at Bournemouth University and a visiting Senior Lecturer, Southampton University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

The Pre-face: "Tell, Please"

Mary

Opening the Seam

"Tell, Please"

Looking through the Window

Residing in Voices

"Not Like a Hand"

A Politician Who Finds It Difficult to Smile

We Do Not Share the Same World

Floods of Faces

Sweating Blood

Bone to Brain

Fish Face

Darwin's Nose

The Anatomy of a Smile

The Vanity of Astronauts

Bell's Nerve

Laughter and Sorrow

Cars and Faces

Chimpanzees' Dreams

From Aristotle to Darwin

Universal Faces

Culture and Colors

Smiling Happy People?

Decoding Primate Faces

Howlett's Zoo, Kent

Monkey World, Dorset

The Tavistock Institute, London

Born Independent

Theory of Mind

Feelings of Soul

The Color of Hair

Like a Ball Off a Wall

The Spectator

Imitation, Self, and Others

Child's Play

In the Playground

The Reflection of Ourselves

James

One Big Family

George

Dull and Boring?

Oliver

Mrs. Doubtfire

Coming Alive--The Video

Grumpy

Changing Faces

Seven Years of Trial and Error

Seeing the Enemy

Face Odyssey

Maps of Feelings

Hearing Emotions, Thinking Emotions

Controlling Emotions

Measuring Skulls

No Different Today

William James and James

Phantom Emotions

Face Value

Theory of Mind?

Seeing Consciousness

The Divine Fantasy

Notes

Index

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