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Resources to enrich your understanding of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
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Fall Selection

Need a copy to read in the Library for a short time? Copy down the call number for this book and make a request at the Reserve Desk:  Doyle Library 4th floor, or Mahoney Circulation Desk, 1st floor.  Be sure to bring your Student ID card so that you can check the book out.

 

Elle Magazine

Elle Magazine Cover

Bauby was an editor for Elle Magazine, a French fashion magazine, when he suffered a stroke that led to his locked in syndrome.  For an online version click on the blue link.

 

What is a Diving Bell?

Diving Bell

  • Diving Bell  
      
    What exactly is a diving bell? Read all about it in this diving bell Encyclopedia Britannica Online article.
 
 

About the Author

Bauby on a Motorcycle

Author Jean-Dominique Bauby was born in France in 1952. He attended school in Paris. After working as a journalist for a number of years, Bauby became the editor-in-chief of the Parisian fashion magazine Elle in 1991. On December 8, 1995 he had a stroke which left him with the condition known as locked-in syndrome. Bauby died on March 9, 1997, two days after the French publication of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. He was the father of two children, Theophile and Celeste.

From the Barnes & Noble website

For a thorough biography consult the article on Bauby using the Literature Resource Center database link below.

 

Locked In Syndrome

Read pages 292-296 ("Lessons from Locked in Syndrome") for a description of the emotional states of those living with Locked In Syndrome.  This is from the 1999 book The Feeling of What Happens:  Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Dr. Antonio R. Damasio, PhD, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscioence, and the Director, Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California.
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Websites

Bauby Dictating his Book

  • Living with Locked In Syndrome  
      
    Read the story of Nick, another patient living with Locked In Syndrome, in this British Medical Journal article from 2005.
  • Article from Salon.com  
      
    Critical of the depiction of Bauby's life as portrayed in the 2007 movie this article contains interviews with Bauby's "closest friends [who] feel the movie may forever obscure the truth of his life."
  • The Real Love Story Behind The Diving Bell and the Butterfly  
      
    When stroke victim Jean-Dominique Bauby's book was turned into a Bafta-winning film, the world wept for his tragic on-screen wife. But why was his lover, Florence Ben Sadoun, airbrushed from the story? She tells Janine di Giovanni a different version of events in the Guardian, a British newspaper.
  • NIH - Locked In Syndrome  
      
    A brief description of the disorder along with links to current research and clinical trials
  • Locked In Syndrome Association  
      
    The official website of the association Bauby founded "to show the world that this pathology, which impedes movement and speech, does not prevent patients from living."
  • Psychiatric Times Article  
      
    An in-depth article describing the importance of communicating for victims of locked in syndrome. Describes the development of computer technology to assist patients with communication as well as the psychological dimension of the syndrome.
 
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