A History of Limb Amputation

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kirkup, John (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Springer London, 2007.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Orthopedics.; Surgery.; Medicine > History.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Orthopedics.; History of Medicine.

A History of Limb Amputation traces humanity’s long experience of natural amputations due to congenital absence, disease, frostbite, toxins, domestic and wild animal trauma, and for non-medical reasons related to punitive, ritual, and legal actions, ultimately leading to the development of elective...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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 Evolution 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.