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Author Cole, Jonathan, 1951-

Title The invisible smile : living without facial expression / Jonathan Cole with Henrietta Spalding
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 233 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Someone home -- Balancing acts -- Cartesian children -- part of me -- The spectator -- Elastic between us -- Hear my smile -- 'Doomed to express' -- Changing of the rules -- Every second of the day -- Not about anything -- Rusty old car -- The last 'why'
Summary This title is about people who live with Mobius Syndrome, which has as its main feature an absence of movement of the muscles of facial expression from birth. The book allows children and adults with the condition to explain what it is like. These biographies reveal much about the relations between face and facial expression
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Facial paralysis.
Paralysis.
Mouth -- Diseases.
Neurologic manifestations of general diseases.
Nervous system -- Diseases.
Diseases.
Paralysis
Mouth Diseases
Neurologic Manifestations
Stomatognathic Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
Nervous System Diseases
Disease
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms
Facial Paralysis
illness.
disease.
Facial paralysis.
Medicine.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Neurology.
Form Electronic book
Author Spalding, Henrietta
ISBN 9780191693564
0191693561