A01=Christopher Eccleston
Author_Christopher Eccleston
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- ISBN 9780198727903
- Weight: 484g
- Dimensions: 181 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Nov 2015
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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We grow up thinking there are five senses, but we forget about the ten neglected senses of the body that both enable and limit our experience.
Embodied explores the psychology of physical sensation in ten chapters: balance, movement, pressure (acting in gravity), breathing, fatigue, pain, itch, temperature, appetite, and expulsion (the senses of physical matter leaving the body). For each sense, two people are interviewed who live with extreme experiences of the sense being investigated; their stories bring to life how far physical sensations matter to us and how much they define what is possible in our life. How physical sensation shapes behavior and how behavior is shaped by sensation are examined. A final chapter presents a theory of what is common across the ten senses: of how we deal with being urged to act, and what happens when extreme sensation is inescapable.
Christopher Eccleston is Professor Psychology at the University of Bath in the UK where he directs the Centre for Pain Research.
