Luba Vihanski Published by The Dana Press & The Joseph Henry Press, 500 Fifth St., NW Washington, DC 20001, USA. ISBN 0-309-07437-1 US$27.95 269 pp

Neuroscience is an unfinished project. One consequence of this is that clinicians must still utter those dread words ‘you will never walk again’ to many of their patients who have recently sustained a traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI). Not so very long ago, people paralyzed in this way were unlikely to live long. The advent of antibiotics, new diagnostic and surgical techniques, low-pressure cushions and mattresses, together with more enlightened rehabilitation has changed that and extended life expectancy for those with SCI to one not so very far short of the overall average.

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