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Jonathan Cole's Virtual Arm project www.wellcome.ac.uk
Scott Penrose illusionist www.stagemagician.com
Anagrammatic Bodies Seminars Series, the London Consortium www.londonconsortium.com
Proceedings from Conference on Phantom Limb Phenomena, Goldmsiths College, 2003, including contributions from Chris Frith, Peter Brugger, and others www.artbrain.org

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FURTHER READING

Hans Bellmer
:: Hans Bellmer, The Doll, trans. and intro. by Malcolm Green  (London: Atlas Anti-Classics 14, 2005)
:: Sue Taylor, The Anatomy of Anxiety  (London: MIT press, 2000)
:: Peter Webb, with Robert Short, Hans Bellmer (London: Quartet Books, 1986)

Spiritualism/Magic

:: Ann Braude. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.

:: Edward M. Brown, “Neurology and Spiritualism in the 1870s.” Bull.Hist.Med. 57,(1983): 563-578.

:: Clement Cheroux, Andrea Fischer, et al, The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2004)

:: Daniel Cottom, Abyss of Reason; Cultural Movements, Revelations and Betrayals (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991)
:: Robert S. Cox, Body and Soul: A Sympathetic history of American Spiritualism, Charlottesville & London: Universiy of Virginia Press, 2003.

:: Silas Weir Mitchell, “The Case of George Dedlow”, Atlantic Monthly 18, no. 105 (July 1866), 1-11 (available online http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Quack/00000013.htm).
:: Alex Owen. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth century England, London: Virago Press, 1989.

:: Massimo Polidoro, The Final Séance: The Strange Friendship between Houdini and Conan Doyle (New York: Prometheus Books, 2001)
:: Helen Sword, Ghostwriting modernism (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002)
:: Pamela Thurschwell. Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

:: Marina Warner, Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)

Sheri Weinstein, “Technologies of Vision: Spiritualism and Science in Nineteenth-Century America,” in Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination. ed. J. A. Weinstock. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004., pp. 124-140

Phantom Limbs and Body-Image Distortion

:: O Blanke, T Landis, L Spinelli, M Seeck. “Out-of-body experience and autoscopy of neurological origin” Brain (2004) 127, pp. 243-258
:: Peter Brugger, ‘Phantomology: The Science of the Body in the Brain,’ transcription of paper given at ‘Phantom Limb’ conference, Goldmsith’s College, 2003, online http://www.artbrain.org/phantomlimb/brugger.html
:: Peter Brugger, “From Haunted Brain to Haunted Science: A Cognitive Neuroscience View of Paranormal and Pseudoscientific Thought,” Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edited by J. Houran and R. Lange (North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2001)
:: P Brugger, SS Kollias, RM Müri, G Crelier, M-C Hepp-Reymond, M Regard. “Beyond re-membering: phantom sensations of congenitally absent limbs.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (2000) 97, pp. 6167-6172.
:: P Brugger, “Reflective mirrors: perspective transformation in autoscopic phenomena” Cognitive Neuropsychiatry (2002) 7, pp. 179-194.
:: P Brugger, M Regard, T Landis, “Illusory reduplication of one's own body: phenomenology and classification of autoscopic phenomena.” Cognitive Neuropsychiatry (1997) 2, pp. 19-38.
:: J Cole, G Austwick, C Dawson, Z Zhang and R Wynne. “Virtual reality induced agency, embodiment and analgesia in subjects with phantom limb pain”, unpublished manuscript.
S Gallagher & J Cole, “Body-Image and Body Schema in the Deafferented Subject”, Journal of Mind and Behaviour 16 (1995), 369-390.
:: Ernest Earnest. S. Weir Mitchell, Novelist and Physician. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1950.

:: Robert I. Goler,. “Loss and the Persistence of Memory: ‘The Case of George Dedlow’ and Disabled Civil War Veterans.” Literature and Medicine 23.1 (2004): 160-183.

:: PW Halligan & JC Marshall, “Supernumerary phantom limb after right hemispheric stroke.” Journal of Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1995 Sep; 59 (3):pp. 341-2
:: Jean l’Hermitte, L’Image de notre corps (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Critique, 1939).

:: Henry Head. Studies in Neurology. London: Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 1920.

:: Lisa Herschbach. “’True Clinical Fictions:’ Medical and Literary Narratives from the Civil War Hospital.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 19.2 (1995): 183-205.::

:: Deborah Journet. “Phantom Limbs and “Body-Ego”: S. Weir Mitchell’s “George Dedlow.”” Mosaic 23.1 (1990): 87-99

:: William M. Keen, Silas Weir Mitchell, and George R. Morehouse. “On Malingering, Especially with Regard to Simulation of Diseases of the Nervous System.” Philadelphia Medical Journal (October 1864): 364-94.

:: Lisa A. Long, Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History and the American Civil War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

:: Elan D.Louis, Stacy Horn, and Lisa Anne Roth. “The neurologic content of S. Weir Mitchell’s fiction.” Neurology 66 (2006): 403-407
:: D. J. McGonigle, R. Hanninen, S. Salenius, R. Hari, R. S. J. Frackowiak, and C. D. Frith “Whose arm is it anyway? An fMRI case study of supernumerary phantom limb,” Brain (2002) 125(6): pp. 1265 - 1274.
:: Silas Weir Mitchell. Injuries of Nerves and their Consequences. 1872. Reprinted New York, Dover publications, 1965.

:: --- “The Case of George Dedlow”, Atlantic Monthly 18, no. 105 (July 1866), 1-11 (available online http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Quack/00000013.htm).

:: --- “Phantom limbs.” Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature & Science. vol. 8 (1871): 563-569.

:: --- The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow. New York: The century Co., 1900.

:: ---“The Treatment by Rest, Seclusion, Etc. in Relation to Psychotherapy.” The Journal of the American Medical Association 50 (1908): 2033-37.

:: Silas Weir Mitchell, George R. Morehouse, and William M. Keen. Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of Nerves. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & co. 1864.

:: O’Connor, Erin. “’Fractions of Men:’ Engendering Amputation in Victorian Culture.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 39.4 (1997): 742-777.

:: --- Raw Material: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000.

:: Douglas B. Price and Neil J. Twonbly, The Phantom Limb Phenomenon: A Medical, Folkloric, and Historical Study (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1978)
:: VS Ramachandran & S Blakeslee, Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Brain (London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1998)
:: VS Ramachandran, “Consciousness and Body Image: lessons from Phantom Limbs, Capgras Syndrome and Pain Asymbolia”, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences (Nov 1998) vol. 353, no. 1377, pp. 1851-1859;
:: VS Ramachandran and D. Rogers-Ramachandran, “Synaesthesia in phantom limbs induced with mirrors”, Proceedings: Biological Sciences, Vol; 263 No 1369 (April 1996), pp. 377-386.
:: VS Ramachandran & D Rogers-Ramachandran, “Phantom Limbs and Neural Plasticity.” Archives of Neurology (2000) 57, pp. 317-320.
:: Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat (London: Picador, 1986)
:: Oliver Sacks, A Leg to Stand On (London: Picador 1991)
:: Paul Schilder, The Image and Appearance of the Human Body (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1935)
:: F. Sellal, C. Renaseau-leclerc, R Labrecque, “L’homme à six bras. Un examen de membres fantômes surnuméraires après ramollissement sylvien droit.” Revue Neurologique (Paris), 1996 Mar;152(3):pp. 190-5.

:: Douwe Tiemersma. Body Schema and Body Image: An Interdisciplinary and Philosophical Study. Amsterdam/Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1989.

 

THANKS TO:

Generously funded by the Arts Council England.
Continuous thanks to Jonathan Cole and Chris Frith
Appreciation, inspiration and gratefulness goes to all the Exquisite Corpse contributors Simon Baker, Peter Brugger, Marisa Carnesky, Jonathan Cole, Steven Connor, Daniel Cottom, Dierdrich Dierdrichson, Mark Alice Durant, Simon During, Chris Frith, Malcolm Green, Sally O’Reilly, Andrew Patrizio, the Quay Brothers, Hillel Schwartz, Marina Warner, Peter Webb.
With gratitude also to Whitechapel staff, Maggie and Carla in the production of the ‘Instructions for use’ film, Patrick for the photographic stills, and Caro.
Massive thankfulness also due to Ricardo Alvarez, George Tomlinson, Clare Bryan, and Genevieve Closuit.
I would especially (and eternally) like to thank David Edelsztein.