The Man Who Lost his Body

Oct 16, 1997 on BBC TWO at 9:00 PM

Summary

Looks at Ian Waterman, who at 19 caught a virus that destroyed half of his nervous system and who, in spite of medical assertions that he would never walk, feed or move again, managed by sheer will-power to get back some mobility. Examines the questi... (more)on of how far the brain can over-ride disease or physical problems.

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