A Memoir of Losing - And Discovering - The Primal Sense
Hardback
Publication Date: 16/06/2010
In November 2005, Bonnie Blodgett was whacked with a nasty cold. After a quick shot of a popular nasal spray up each nostril, the back of her nose was on fire. With that, Blodgett a professional garden writer devoted to the sensual pleasures of garden and kitchen was launched on a journey through the senses, the psyche, and the sciences. Her olfactory nerve was destroyed, perhaps forever. She had lost her sense of smell. Phantosmia a constant stench of every disgusting thing you can think of tossed into a blender and pureed is the first disorienting stage. It s the brain s attempt, as Blodgett vividly conveys, to compensate for loss by conjuring up a tortured facsimile. As the hallucinations fade and anosmia (no smell at all) moves in to take their place, Blodgett is beset by questions: Why are smell and mood hand-in-hand? How are smell disorders linked to other diseases? What is taste without flavor? Blodgett s provocative conversations with renowned geneticists, smell dysfunction experts, neurobiologists, chefs, and others ultimately lead to a life-altering understanding of smell, and to the most transformative lesson of all: the olfactory nerve, in ways unlike any other in the human body has the extraordinary power to heal. "
- ISBN:
- 9780618861880
- 9780618861880
- Category:
- Memoirs
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 16-06-2010
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Houghton Mifflin
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 245
- Dimensions (mm):
- 211x147x25mm
- Weight:
- 0.36kg
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