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A history of limb amputation
- Title
- A history of limb amputation / John Kirkup.
- Author
- Kirkup, John.
- Publication
- London : Springer, [2007], ©2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RD553 .K57 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vii, 184 pages : illustrations; 27 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction and sources -- Natural causes of dismemberment -- Accidental causes for amputation: auto-amputation -- Ritual, punitive, legal and iatrogenic causes -- Cold steel and gunshot causes -- Elective amputation: early evoluation to the end of the 17th century -- Elective amputation: from the 18th century to 1846 -- Elective amputation: from 1846 to recent times -- Interpretations of amputation by society, patients and surgeons -- Surgical instrumentation and equipment -- Indications, timing and procedures -- Stumps: reattachment, management, complications, revision and care for limb-fitting -- Artificial limbs and rehabilitation with contributions by Kingsley Robinson.
- ISBN
- 1846284430 (hbk.)
- 9781846284434 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 9781846284434
- OCLC
- ocm70987394
- SCSB-8882084
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries