Chekhov's Sakhalin Journey: Doctor, Humanitarian, Writer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350367517)

Jonathan Cole is a professor of clinical neuroscience at University Hospitals, Dorset and the University of Bournemouth. He trained in Oxford and the Middlesex Hospital, London. As a medical student he spent time seeing patients in the Bronx with Oliver Sacks, who remained a friend. In addition to 200 or so academic papers/chapters, he has also explored first person, narrative accounts of neurological conditions. He has published books on severe loss of sensation, Pride and a Daily Marathon and Losing Touch; spinal cord injury, Still Lives; and facial disfigurement, About Face and The Invisible Smile, all describing what it is like to live with the conditions. His work was used in two plays by Peter Brook, The Man Who and The Valley of Astonishment. He also made an award winning BBC Horizon, The Man Who Lost His Body, as well as many other TV science documentaries in the UK, Europe, Australia and the US.
He has appeared on BBC Start The Week, Thinking Allowed, Night Waves (with Jonathan Miller), All in the Mind, Does He Take Sugar, BBC World Service (with Doris Lessing), Front Row, (with Siobhan Davies) and NPR (USA). His books have been widely reviewed: Sunday Times, Observer, a Guardian feature, Nature, TLS, THES, Brain, JAMA, Annals Neurology, New Scientist, etc.