Still Lives by Jonathan Cole, MIT Press, $27.95/£18.95, ISBN 0262033151 Reviewed by Roy Herbert
JONATHAN Cole is a consultant in clinical neuro-physiology. He deals with people who have injuries to their spinal cord. What Cole wanted to explore in Still Lives was what it was like to live your life as a paraplegic.
In his introduction he describes the physical details of such injuries, but valuable as that is, it is simply mapping pain and loss of movement. Living with these is a different matter altogether. In the first chapter Cole describes the consequences of particular injuries, most of…
