This Is What It’s Like To Be At War With Your Body

The compulsion to be free of a limb is no imaginary illness

Anil Ananthaswamy
Matter
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33 min readDec 30, 2013

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This wasn’t the first time that David had tried to amputate his leg. When he was just out of college, he’d…

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Anil Ananthaswamy
Matter
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Science writer focusing on physics, neuroscience and climate change. Correspondent for New Scientist. Author of The Edge of Physics