The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness

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<P>Bodily awareness is one of the most interesting and enigmatic forms of experience. Our earliest and most pervasive form of conscious experience, it also arguably remains the most private. Bodily awareness has also long played a central role in the study of the mind and self-consciousness, and is fundamental to much current philosophical and psychological research.</P><P><EM>The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness </EM>is an outstanding reference source to this fascinating subject. Comprising over thirty chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into seven parts:</P><UL><LI>Epistemology and Metaphysics</LI><LI>Historical Issues</LI><LI>Body Representation</LI><LI>Sensing the Body</LI><LI>Dynamics</LI><LI>Pathology</LI><LI>Interaction</LI></UL><P>Within these sections specific topics covered include bodily ownership, personal identity, self-consciousness, body modelling in robot design, body illusions, touch, proprioception, phantom limb syndrome, p