The Man Who Lost His Body

Description

Twenty-five years ago, a young English butcher named Ian Waterman caught a virus that destroyed half his nervous system. He was left like a rag doll, with no sense of touch below the neck, and disorientation as to the use of his limbs unless they were actually in his field of vision. The doctors told him that he would never walk, feed himself, or dress himself again. Yet, as this inspiring documentary shows, against what seemed to be insurmountable odds, he has made an apparently miraculous recovery. How has he managed it? What does his story reveal about the extraordinary capacities of the human brain?

Runtime

50 min

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Date of Publication

[2012], c1988

Database

Films on Demand

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